South Carolina carried out its first execution in 13 years on Friday. Death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection ...

When it comes to abolishing the death penalty in the U.S., a small but determined band of activists and policymakers are ...

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

Freddie Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution near Columbia, the state's capital ...

Freddie Owens was put to death by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina shortly before 7 ...

North Carolina executed Freddie Owens, even after serious doubts about his guilt emerged. When we kill the conceivably ...

Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. While on trial, Owens ...

The Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty also voiced concerns for the current 37 death row prisoners, arguing that most ...

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of ...

Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.

Jesse Motte, right, protests the planned execution of Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Columbia, S.C.

South Carolina law allows condemned inmates to choose lethal injection, the new firing squad or the electric chair built in ...