A Jan. 10 trial date was scheduled Friday for a 23-year-old probationer accused of fatally beating a Riverside senior after breaking into her home. Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena of Palm Springs was arrested ...

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution ...

Gov. Jay Inslee closed the death chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary on Wednesday. It’s been 14 years since the last ...

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 ...

Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes ...