“El Mencho’s” son, Rubén Oseguera — known as “El Menchito” — was sentenced to March to life in prison after his conviction in ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the June 6 death of an incarcerated person at Kern Valley State Prison as a homicide. Mario Renteria. At ...

REDWOOD CITY – No criminal charges will be filed in the overdose death of a 25-year-old inmate at a jail in Redwood City earlier this year, according to prosecutors. Bay Area man got 18 months ...

2 death row inmates executed in Florida, ... Alabama Department of Corrections/AFP via Getty Images ... This was the sixth time a state has killed an inmate with nitrogen gas. With Post wires.

In court papers quoted by the AP, an expert for Stanko, 57, suggested that the firing squad either aimed below the target or that the target was not placed on Mahdi's heart to "cause great pain ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press Jun 11, 2025 ...

Enrique Sandoval, Daniel Arciniega and Eleazar Alicantar learn English language skills in class at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday. In March 2023, Gov. Newsom announced a plan to transform ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison Monday for her role in the 2022 beating death of ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, sentenced to death for a 1999 murder, has been granted a stay of execution pending the resolution of his lawsuit against the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board.

Hanson, 61, was sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of an elderly Tulsa woman in 1999. His execution was set for Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.