When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions Ms. Marks ruled Frazier had not met the “exceedingly high” legal bar required to win an ...

It currently has 30. About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes.

Marion Bowman is not asking for clemency as he says he doesn’t want to spend more time in prison for a crime he ... headlines from across the US A death row killer who shot his friend before ...

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16 ... Vann said that Bowman has matured while in prison, developed a deep faith in God and became a bit of a writer, penning a poem titled "While ...

About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. The United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied ...

yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he ...

State Supreme County Justice Alex Renzi on Wednesday sentenced Black to life in prison without the possibility of parole for Romich's shooting death. Romich, a Chili resident, was the co-owner of ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for ...