Gov. Josh Stein signed a Republican-led bill aimed at addressing violent crime in North Carolina on Friday, praising its ...

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.

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

Christa Gail Pike, 49, will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years if her execution proceeds next September.

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

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

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The state of Tennessee has officially set a date for Christa Pike's execution -- and if it goes through, she'll become the ...

North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail ...

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 ...