The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be ...

Here's when, where and how Roy Lee Ward, the killer of Spencer County girl Stacy Payne, will be executed this week.

North Carolina Republican legislators have introduced criminal justice measures to toughen bail rules and evaluate offenders for mental health issues ...

Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death by Decarlos Brown Jr while travelling through Charlotte, North Carolina ...

More than two decades after the brutal murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne, the man twice convicted of the crime will be executed in Indiana.

If Christa Pike's execution is carried out, she would become the first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years and the 19th woman executed in modern U.S. history.

A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have bipartisan support on Monday until an amendment seeking to resume ...

Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third execution ...

New legislation could see Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's killer put to death via unconventional means. Decarlos Brown Jr ...

Capital punishment has existed in NC since colonial times. Only lethal injection remains legal, but Iryna's law could expand ...

The wide-ranging bill would open the door to restarting executions in North Carolina after ongoing legal challenges are resolved.

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law on Friday a wide-ranging crime bill that GOP lawmakers put together after the fatal stabbing on board a light rail train in Charlotte in August.