Indirectly, passage of Prop. 35 would block Newsom’s efforts to use money from the tax to help close multi-billion-dollar ...

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should be applied only to the most grievous offenses, a ...

By Dan Walters California voters will begin marking their mail-in ballots for the Nov. 5 election in just a few days and how ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

The Greenville News will be providing live coverage from Columbia today leading up to the execution of Freddie Owens.

Taiwan's constitutional court ruled that the death penalty is constitutional for the most serious crimes under stringent legal scrutiny. Despite being Asia's liberal democracy, the death penalty ...

Demonstrators gathered at Shahbagh in the capital today (20 September), blocking the intersection to protest against the recent attacks on indigenous people in Khagrachhari's Dighinala upazila. More ...

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the ...

In Ford v. Wainwright, the court held in 1986 that “insane” people could not be sentenced to die; Atkins v. Virginia in 2002 ...

A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...