A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during home invasion robbery is scheduled to be put to death in December under a ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to ...

Sumter County Sheriff Tommy Mims, when announcing Bryant’s arrest in 2004 ... means there will likely be a court fight about the execution over the next two weeks. Attorneys for the second and most ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who is set to become the 50th man executed since the state reinstated the death penalty 40 years ago will die by firing squad.

Syrian authorities have said they had arrested a former military official accused of executing detainees at the notorious Sednaya prison during the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad. In a ...

The Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission investigating alleged rights abuses in Iran says there has been a "surge in repression and extraordinary spike ...