South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — In a Pike County courtroom on Friday, Judge Jonathan Hein decided to eschew the prosecution's plea deal with Edward "Jake" Wagner and instead provide him an opportunity for parole.

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Edward "Jake" Wagner, his mother, Angela, and his grandmother, Rita Newcomb, are all scheduled to be sentenced Friday ...

Three members of the Wagner family learned their fate on Friday for their involvement in the Rhoden family massacre. Judge ...

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...

Jake Wagner agreed to life in prison when he pleaded guilty to his role in the murders of seven Rhoden family members and Hannah Gilley and that's what he got. He pleaded guilty in exchange for the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has set the execution date for condemned inmate Marion Bowman Jr.

The "massacre" was motivated by a child custody dispute. Angela Wagner, her mother, Rita Newcomb, and her son, Jake Wagner, will all be sentenced Friday. They all took plea deals in the case. Jake was ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...