Which are the top 10 worst prisons in Pennsylvania? Discover about prisons in Pennsylvania that have faced significant ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Efforts to repeal the death penalty, not carried out in Pennsylvania since 1999, were revived this week with the introduction of legislation backed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The measure - ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S ... This includes California, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Ohio, where governors have currently placed executions on hold. Stock image: A jail ...

A Philadelphia man was ordered Friday to stand trial in Cambria County court in the November stabbing death of an Adams ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations ... in that instance, the inmate chose to waive his appeals and “volunteered” for his own execution.

Death Row Inmate Sues Pennsylvania Prison for Keeping Him in Solitary Confinement for a Quarter Century A Pennsylvania death row inmate that has spent over a quarter century in solitary ...

Meanwhile, Louisiana plans to execute a Death Row inmate in March using another ... while three others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – have moratoriums in place. Three states ...

In California, two dozen inmates have taken their lives since the state reintroduced capital punishment in 1978. In 2009, Pennsylvania death row inmate Jose Pagan, sentenced to die for the ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...