As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

In the 25 years since the Columbine massacre, twisted people hoping to get their message out have used the legal system to gain 'internet notoriety' and spread their warped world views ...

A Philadelphia man was ordered Friday to stand trial in Cambria County court in the November stabbing death of an Adams ...

Governors in California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio have ... He was the first death row inmate executed in the state of Florida this year. "The death penalty debases us all," Floridians For ...

Death Row Inmate Sues Pennsylvania Prison for Keeping Him in Solitary Confinement for a Quarter Century A Pennsylvania death row inmate that has spent over a quarter century in solitary ...

Meanwhile, Louisiana plans to execute a Death Row inmate in March using another ... while three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums in place. Three states ...

In California, two dozen inmates have taken their lives since the state reintroduced capital punishment in 1978. In 2009, Pennsylvania death row inmate Jose Pagan, sentenced to die for the ...

Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...