Holiday hotspot Thailand, which relies heavily on its dedicated tourist economy, has seen dozens of Western tourists suffer ...

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.

A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.

Just after 6 p.m. on March 7, the curtain hiding South Carolina’s execution chamber jerks open. From my front-row seat, the room reveals itself in phases. First, two wardens. Next, the lethal ...

If God said it, and capital punishment was meant to be an immutable law, God did not believe it because God did not follow it ...

A federal court judge has denied an Alaska man’s petition to appeal his death sentence and he will remain as the only inmate on death row in South Dakota. Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to ...

Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman had been convicted of violent crimes, and 16 ...

Briley Wayne Piper was sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of Chester Allan Poage in South Dakota. Piper has repeatedly appealed his death sentence, but his latest appeal was denied by a ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg police captain. Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also killed a ...

A man who fatally stabbed a dad-to-be after an 'entirely avoidable' argument over an e-bike has been jailed. Lloyd Velasquez, 34, and an unnamed female friend of his travelled to the home of Ben ...