Dive into the dark world of prison violence as we explore chilling cases of murderers who committed additional killings while ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall.

A prisoner who was serving time for burglary beat a fellow inmate to death in an “unimaginable scene of savagery and cruelty” ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

But for those targeted by Indonesia's strict drug laws, inmates are kept in pained isolation as they await the 72-hour notice ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional ...

Montgomery, Ala. – Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case. Ivey said Myers, who was facing ...

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...