South Carolina Opinion Editor Matthew T. Hall recently published a major multimedia project about the state’s prison system.

Twenty-seven former Ohio lawmakers have joined the movement to abolish the death penalty in the state, citing concerns over ...

Nearly half of Ohio lawmakers who are still alive from the General Assembly that passed the death penalty statute have signed ...

Florida is believed to be the only state that is actively seeking to execute people who sexually abused children.

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

The state of Florida has had 15 executions so far this year. Twice as many as last year. The execution ofNorman Grim raises ...

Chris Ponnet, who often served as the lone visitor to hundreds dying of COVID-19 and presided over an annual service honoring ...

Victor Tony Jones, who was convicted of murder, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Sept. 30, and pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. Jones had no final ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

A Pinellas County woman has been arrested on child pornography and capital sexual battery charges after investigators say she ...

his view on the death penalty, how prison staff treated him as time inched closer to his death date, what his final days looked like and how he wanted the Luna family to be remembered. Right now, ...