death penalty

Date set for South Carolina’s first execution in more than 13 years

By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than 13 years.

The evolution of Harris’ stances on key issues, from the death penalty to marijuana

By Brian Slodysko, Michael R. Blood, Alan Suderman, Associated Press

As a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris’ litany of policy reversals is opening her to attacks by Republicans and testing the strength of her pitch to voters as a truth-teller who is far more credible than former President Donald Trump.

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty legal, opening door to restart executions after 13 years

By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty is legal, opening the door to restart executions in a state that hasn’t put an inmate to death since 2011.

Jury recommends death penalty for gunman who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press

A jury recommended Wednesday that a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank in 2019.

Idaho man sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children in doomsday plot

By Associated Press

Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children in Idaho. The sentence was handed down Saturday after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just…

Oklahoma executes man convicted of two homicides in 2002 via lethal injection

By Sean Murphy, Associated Press

During a clemency hearing last month, Michael Dewayne Smith expressed his “deepest sorrows” to the victims’ families, but denied he was responsible.

Ugandan court rejects bid to nullify anti-gay law that provides for the death penalty in some cases

By Risdel Kasasira, Associated Press

President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into law in May last year, and it has been widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad.

Assange can’t be extradited until U.S. rules out death penalty, UK court says

By Sylvia Hui, Jill Lawless, Associated Press

For the WikiLeaks founder, it was a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of classified American documents.

Idaho set to execute 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates

By Rebecca Boone, Associated Press

He is one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S. who has been imprisoned since 1974 and convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more.

An eyewitness account of what happened at the nation’s 1st nitrogen gas execution

By Kim Chandler, Associated Press

As witnesses watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas.