On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens, 46, a death row inmate convicted of murder, armed robbery, use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, is scheduled to ...

However, due to an unintentional pause in executions, the number of inmates on death row in South Carolina has decreased. In early 2011, there were 63 condemned inmates; currently, there are 32.

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

For many, a death sentence means a double punishment. People on death row can spend decades locked alone in a tiny, cement room before they are ever strapped to an execution gurney. We know that the ...

Royal and his wife, Nancy, moved to Arizona in the summer of 1981. As they drove into town that hot August afternoon, they were met by a huge dust storm. "It's going to rain," they said to each ...

Lear's reps previously confirmed to PEOPLE that the Hollywood icon died on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at his home in Los Angeles Norman Lear's cause of death has been determined. Nearly two weeks after the ...

At least five other death row inmates in South Carolina are out of appeals and the state Supreme Court has ruled they can be executed in five-week intervals.

The unmistakable G-Funk sound of Southern California created a style that, in the ’90s, shaped Hip-Hop culture in its own image. Since its conception by Dr. Dre with The Chronic, G-Funk has beco ...

Norman Belcher, a Nevada inmate who was on death row for the murder of a 15-year-old girl, died last week by suicide. The Nevada Department of Corrections said in a news release that Belcher ...