Dive into the dark world of prison violence as we explore chilling cases of murderers who committed additional killings while ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall.

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

In a small prison cell in Nigeria, a Christian man waits for a fate he insists he does not deserve. His name is Sunday Jackson, a former student turned farmer in his ear ...

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Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

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