Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses.

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons. Meanwhile, a pregnant inmate at the Perryville complex describes her ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Cell death is achieved by two fundamentally different mechanisms: apoptosis and necrosis. Apoptosis is dependent on caspase activation, whereas the caspase-independent necrotic signaling pathway ...

Scheduled to die Thursday in Alabama, Frazier would be the first man to be executed while technically under the state of ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... for a man who previously served a prison sentence for the killings of ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for ...

S Rajesh, 33, was arrested for strangling his mother, VG Meenakshi, 58, to death after she warned him he would be sent to a rehabilitation centre if he didn't stop drinking.

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

A Brooklyn man is facing at least 20 years behind bars for the senseless stabbing death of a community activist ... to plead guilty in exchange for a prison term of 20 years to life when he ...

Could death row inmates commuted by Biden be sentenced to death at the state level? Legal experts weigh in as Trump reinstates the federal death penalty. Getty Images/iStockphoto Among the slew of ...