Prison staff reportedly used physical force to pin Christopher Leong, 35, to the ground after he charged and hit them — then he stopped breathing.

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

A Salinas Valley prisoner, Juan Jose Bueno, was sentenced to life without parole for murder for stabbing another inmate.

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, ...

A hearing was held Thursday, April 17 in Caddo District Court for a death row inmate who is trying to appeal his sentence.

Renee A. Rodriguez, A Man once sentenced in Monterey County, died in a Los Angeles County prison after an attack from another ...

At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Alabama executed the 55-year-old by lethal injection, making him the second inmate put to death in Alabama this year and the 14th in the nation.

Bryan Stirling, head of state prison system for the past decade, is expected to be Trump's pick as top federal law ...