A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

James Hilliard died just days after his lawyer filed a notice of claim against Yonkers and an upstate psychiatric hospital.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

Surveillance footage shows the man striking the victim in the chest with what appears to be a knife, according to court ...

After guards beat Robert Brooks to death in December, The Marshall Project found dozens more allegations of abuse in medical ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Multiple New York prison guards have been indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.

Duarte, 46, was just taken into custody for the deadly stabbing of 38-year-old John Sheldon at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers Street station.

All 10 former Marcy Correctional Facility Officers have received additional time to accept or deny their plea in Oneida ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

Federal prosecutors in New York haven’t responded to a request for comment ... In 2001, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City ...