A contract security guard facing multiple charges after the Alabama Department of Corrections K-9 and Narcotics personnel ...

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.

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 ...

Sigmon was strapped to a specially made chair and had a hood over his head while three volunteer corrections staffers aimed ...

The Alabama House of Representatives approved the enhancement of punishments for immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, ...

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

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

Louisiana officials have unsealed a redacted version of the state’s execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia, providing the ...

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

In Louisiana, state law says the decision is up to the corrections secretary. Alabama's execution protocol says the morning ...