Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ...

Ohio Attorney General Yost believes the state is shrinking from its responsibility by not executing prisoners sentenced to ...

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has transferred eight former federal death row prisoners to its supermax facility in Colorado.

An escaped inmate charged in a Cherokee County officer's death was federally indicted. State charges continue as prosecutors ...

MICHIGAN CITY — As most across the Region slept, a 53-year-old man was put to death by lethal injection early Friday at the ...

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the ...

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson’s execution to consider the use of “junk science” in his ...

The law provides that if the state’s current method, lethal injection, is found to be unconstitutional or is unable to be administered, the N.C. Department of Adult Correction “must select another ...

On Oct. 14, Lance Shockley is scheduled to be executed, but petitioners are still fighting for his clemency. Shockley was convicted for the 2005 murder of Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Graham, Jr.

An inmate convicted of killing a Somerset County corrections officer, who now sits on death row, is continuing to search for a new trial and returned to the cou ...

Fred Singleton died of natural causes this week after spending over 40 years on South Carolina's death row for the 1982 rape ...