North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not ...

A late amendment to NC’s House Bill 307, also known as “Iryna’s Law,” seeks to expand execution methods to include firing squads. According to the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

Retired Navy JAG officer explains why victim forgiveness doesn't automatically impact state prosecution decisions in Charlie ...

Unbeknownst to the executioners, one would fire a dummy bullet so they wouldn’t know exactly who killed Charlie Kirk’s ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

On Thursday, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West by nitrogen gas. At the same time, Texas is scheduled to execute Blaine Milam by lethal injection.

KOCO.COM, AND READ THE LATEST THERE. SPEAKING OF IT. DEATH ROW INMATE JOHN HANSEN GRANTED A TEMPORARY STAY OF EXECUTION DAYS BEFORE HE WAS SCHEDULED TO DIE. LAST MONTH, HANSEN’S ATTORNEYS FILED A ...