Taiwan's Constitutional Court issued a ruling on Friday upholding the legality of the death penalty, which is still imposed ...

South Carolina resumed executions after a 13-year hiatus, administering a lethal injection to Freddie Owens, convicted of killing a clerk during a 1997 robbery. Owens' last-minute appeals were denied, ...

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 ...

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

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

A Jan. 10 trial date was scheduled today 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause.

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