Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

Certain work stories haunt Jeremy Grant, the assistant chief dog warden in Licking County. "It just looked like a murder scene," Grant said, recounting the house where a little boy had been ...

Activists say an Alabama teenager's incarceration in an adult jail violates federal and state laws that require inmates who are minors to be separated from adults ...

Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people who shared the things about prison that most people don't realize. The responses were honest, sobering, and, at times, completely ...

Not many Alabama small towns are in the spotlight as much as Monroeville – one-time home to literary greats Harper Lee and ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

The number of women prison officers fired for having 'inappropriate' relationships with male inmates has trebled in recent years. Figures show that 40 female wardens have been fired in the past ...

A familiar name will soon take the helm at Cambria County Prison as Capt. Kurt Wolford has been selected as the facility’s next warden, following in the footsteps of his ...

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday. Holmes was ...

Convicted killer Charles Manson's namesake son, Charles Manson Jr., didn't outlive his father and was tormented by his dad's ...