Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

Cocaine trafficker Lindsay Sandiford, 67, is off-loading her gear to other inmates inside Bali's hell-hole Kerobokan jail ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration.

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Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

A book by Taiwanese author Chang Chuan-fen (張娟芬) about the life of Taiwan’s oldest man on death row and the vestiges of the country’s authoritarian past has been selected to be translated as part of a ...

Officials at Singapore’s Changi prison say its notoriously harsh conditions are aimed at deterring prisoners from reoffending and help them re-integrate into society after serving their sentence. But ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move ...