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A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for ...

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul “Greg” House, who spent two decades on Tennessee’s death row before he was finally freed, and later campaigned against the death penalty, died on March 22 at ...

The public pays precious little attention to the majority of death-row inmates; the world only seems to tune in when a celebrity or organization rallies around a convict they deem innocent.

CADDO PARISH, La. (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office is seeking death warrants for two death row inmates. The inmates are Darrell Dewayne Draughn, 54, and Marcus Donte Reed, 47. A ...

He is scheduled to be executed on April 11. South Carolina law requires that death row inmates choose their method of execution between the electric chair, lethal injection and firing squad.