Death row convict Jimmie "Chris" Duncan, imprisoned for 32 years for alleged rape and murder of a two-year-old, now has been ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans ...

It’s been 40 years since one of Shreveport’s most haunting crimes shocked the Cedar Grove community — and the pain still ...

San Francisco County Jail has a dedicated program for incarcerated U.S. Military Veterans, C.O.V.E.R., which provides therapy, treatment, and healing, and is a model for other counties to follow.

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A hearing began Monday to determine if death row inmate Byron Black's defibrillator should be turned off before his Aug. 5 ...

The only British woman on death row in the US has lifted the lid on her deepest fear when it comes to her execution. Linda Carty, 66, is currently on death row in Texas after she was convicted of the ...

An inmate at a women’s prison in Las Vegas died last week, according to a news release from the Nevada Department of ...

23. Belle Gunness, a Norwegian American serial killer active in Illinois and Indiana from 1884–1908, suspected of killing up ...

Yolanda McPherson says a broken system left her without answers for months as to how her daughter died and who was responsible for it.