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 ...

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, ...

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

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the ...

A ceremony will cap a history marked by legal tussles, a secret training, resignations, a deal with a serial killer and raw ...

Tennessee seeks death penalty in the case against Kenneth DeHart Jr. for the fatal shooting of Deputy Greg McCowan.

Some are now urging South Caroilina's highest leader to stop the execution of convicted murderer Freddie Owens from happening ...

South Carolina’s governor has the authority to grant clemency and reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole. A ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to ...

The capital punishment system in Oklahoma is broken. It does not work as it should. From start to finish, it is so badly ...

The law is called Qisas and Diyat law. Qisas, defined as “punishment by causing similar hurt at the same part of the body of the convict,” and diyat meaning, “compensation payable to the hei ...