COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays. The state is working through a backlog of ...

Robbie Dexter Locklear, 52, was among 15 inmates granted clemency among 89 ... Before Tuesday’s commutations, the state had 136 offenders on death row. Adam Benson joined the News13 digital ...

The lethal injection of Christopher Collings on Dec. 3 left just eight men on death row — a figurative term since condemned Missouri inmates are housed with other ... two in South Carolina and one ...

An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously ...

An investigation is now underway after an inmate housed at the Beaver County Jail died while in custody over the weekend.

The inmates or representatives petition for clemency following complicated convictions. The state currently has 136 offenders on death row, and the Governor’s Clemency Office received petitions ...

Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 North Carolinian inmates on death row to life without the possibility of parole on his last day in office Tuesday, the largest clemency action of ...

An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously pushed ...

Cooper also commuted two sentences of non-death row inmates and issued two pardons. "Ensuring careful review of petitions for clemency is a responsibility I take seriously," Cooper said.