Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that condemned Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip be given a new trial.

Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.