A killer on death row has become the first US prisoner in 15 years to be executed by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, was granted permission to choose the manner of his execution after comlaining he ...

South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death row, according to state records. CNN’s John Fritze, Shawn Nottingham and Jessica Jordan contributed to this report.

In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted his "closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." "An eye for an ...

That’s not due to the obvious desire to dodge a state-sanctioned death entirely. Rather, the way the state has handled the matter has made it “impossible” for the prisoner “to assess which ...

ExploreForgotten and waiting to die: How Georgia left intellectually challenged men on death row for decades Most states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana ...

Diehard players of "The Last of Us" video game have been anticipating a certain plot turn ever since news hit that the action-adventure game was getting the HBO series treatment: the death of one ...

Death in Paradise may have be on its fourteenth series but it still knows how to surprise viewers, and new cast member Shaquille Ali-Yebuah teases to Yahoo UK that fans "don't even know what's coming" ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades when no DNA evidence links him to the murders of six women and girls in El ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...

SINGAPORE - An order of respite was granted for a death row inmate, two days before he was scheduled to be hanged on Feb 26. Singaporean Hamzah Ibrahim was convicted of having 26.29g of heroin in ...

SINGAPORE: A death row inmate was granted a stay of execution about two days before he was scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday (Feb 26), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Thursday.