That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Marcus Joiner was serving life in prison for the killing of his wife, Dr. Amy Joiner. Marcus Joiner originally pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the case, but changed his plea to guilty in ...

Season 3 of “The Floor” will premiere directly after Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, Feb. 9, which means some sports fans might tune into the FOX game show for the first time. Based on the Dutch ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

A State Department spokesman said he never should have been taken captive or moved to a Russian prison. Mr. Hubbard’s sister and three former Ukrainian prisoners of war held with Mr. Hubbard ...

A Florida teenager who went joyriding and crashed into another vehicle, killing three women, has pleaded guilty to the charges and could face decades in prison. Maykoll Santiesteban, 16 ...

Every month, I comb through Netflix’s slate of new movies and TV shows and in February, I was greeted with a surprise: “Prison Cell 211.” To anybody who has seen the excellent 2009 movie ...

A Florida teenager who went joyriding and crashed into another vehicle, killing three women, has pleaded guilty to the charges and could face decades in prison. Maykoll Santiesteban, 16, appeared in a ...

CROWN POINT — A Lake Criminal Court jury rendered a guilty verdict Wednesday for a 27-year-old man who stood trial this week for the killing of ... 45 to 65 years in prison while firearm ...

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.