A promised prison overhaul is on a collision course with New York’s long history of keeping basic information about abuses and killings hidden from the public ...

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

Brian Price, the Death Row chef at Texas Huntsville Prison who has prepared final meals for those on Death Row revealed the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A man suffering from severe mental health episodes was sentenced to prison on Friday for a fatal stabbing.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

You might have this idea of what solitary confinement is like based on the movies: a dark hole where someone is isolated for ...

The strike and the state’s response have exacerbated the already brutal conditions in the state prison system.

Sigmon was shot to death by the three state corrections department volunteers - who fired rifles at his chest with specially ...

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years.

A preliminary investigation found that up to nine correction officers may have contributed to Messiah Nantwi’s death, ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first ... who was convicted of the 1996 execution-style murder ...