Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A cause of death has been determined for filmmaker David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and co-creator of Twin Peaks. A death certificate shared by the Los Angeles County ...

"It is, however, regrettable that regular statements made by Bangladesh authorities continue to portray India negatively, holding us responsible for internal governance issues. These statements by ...

The prison building where the Venezuelans were held is next to a smaller, 75-cell maximum security prison, called Camp 5. As of Wednesday, that was where the Pentagon was holding all 15 wartime ...

US is holding migrants in cells that once held Al-Qaida suspects The US government has long held migrants at Guantánamo Bay, primarily Cubans and Haitians who have been picked up at sea ...

READ MORE: Death row child rapist who had 'killer' scrawled across teeth ... During his trial, Nelson broke an electronic shock cuff off his ankle, and later broke a water pipe in a holding cell, ...

Huntsville, Texas – A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year ...

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001. Following ...

Eric Matthew Copple pleaded guilty Tuesday to the bloody slayings of two 26-year-old women in Napa in 2004, and will spend the rest of his life in state prison. On Tuesday, Copple admitted to ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was sentenced to death for the 2011 murder of Rev ... he was accused of angrily breaking a sprinkler head in his holding cell, which flooded the courtroom.