It’s certainly the case with Aileen Wuornos, who killed seven men and ... horror story from her conception to her execution by lethal injection on 9 October 2002, when she was just 46years ...

The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon's lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week's lethal injection ...

His scheduled execution comes as legal challenges continue against the state’s secretive lethal injection protocol. The temporary halt in executions was caused by the state’s inability to ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the ...

The first was last Friday in South Carolina, where Marion Bowman Jr. received a lethal injection for a 2001 murder. Texas has three more executions scheduled before the end of April, the AP reports.

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber. The justices on Friday rejected a request from ...

A legislative proposal to reactivate the death penalty appears to have been short-lived after a bill to allow new methods of lethal injection was narrowly voted down on the House floor on Thursday.