Fred Singleton, 81, was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital ...

A man on Alabama's death row has maintained his innocence for three decades and chaired an inmate-founded advocacy group to abolish the death penalty.

Singleton spent his last three decades in prison in legal limbo after the state Supreme Court ruled he wasn’t competent to be ...

Calvin Duncan, an uncommon man with an all-too-common story, is vying to become clerk of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court – and his campaign may have gathered enough momentum to draw fire from ...

The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of natural causes, according to the South Carolina Department ...

Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United Nations and local authorities said.

Civil rights advocates say a Honduran man is being held illegally at Louisiana State Penitentiary’s new immigration detention ...

In the last five years, three former prison guards at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk have been convicted of sexually assaulting female inmates. One of those women is now suing in federal court, ...