The West Virginia Legislature is moving a bill that would bring the death penalty back to the state, more than 65 years since ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

The West Virginia Legislature is again considering proposals to restore the death penalty. This time it is aimed at people ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Justice Lawrence Larkins Koontz, Jr., 85, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, has died.

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 14 other people are scheduled to be executed in eight ...

Over six years and more than 100 articles at the Union, K.W. Lee chipped away at the weak evidence and shoddy defense that ...

Virginia that executing those with intellectual ... Georgia defense attorneys representing those facing the death penalty applauded the House measure, which they said was long overdue.