CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Governor Josh Stein on Friday, Oct. 3, signed House Bill 307, also known as ‘Iryna’s ...

The bill, approved last month by the Republican-dominated legislature in the wake of the brutal killing of a Ukrainian ...

A current and former solicitor – who have both prosecuted death penalty cases – say deciding whether to pursue capital ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The death penalty is back under focus across South Carolina. Last week, the solicitor in Horry County announced he is seeking capital punishment for a convicted murderer whose ...

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law on Friday a wide-ranging crime bill that GOP lawmakers put together after the ...

North Carolina awaits Gov. Josh Stein's decision on a bill that could restart the death penalty and change execution methods.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was murdered in Charlotte on August 22 after being stabbed in the neck. Career criminal Decarlos Brown is accused of killing her in the frenzied attack on a train.

Republican state legislators hope a new crime law will restart the death penalty. Legal experts say it won’t be that easy.

An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl is set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the ...

The US has used various methods to execute death row inmates, including hanging, the electric chair, and the gas chamber, and ...