Two people who started out as pen pals tried to hatch a plot to bust out of jail, police said. It's a story fit for a best-selling novel. Donald Kohut Jr. was arrested early Tuesday for allegedly ...

A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George John Hanson, 61. The group offered up prayers and support for Hanson, his family and ...

STARING into the eyes of a serial killer is not for the faint-hearted – but for one lawyer that was his daily reality. Christopher Quarles, 71, defended 48 people on Death Row – includi… ...

Amid controversy over South Carolina's execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life of a death row inmate.

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

Kern Valley State Prison violence in California leaves death row inmate Julian Mendez dead in attack involving multiple inmates, prompting investigation by prison officials and district attorney.

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face.

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s.

Latavious Johnson, a death row inmate, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. at the Varner Supermax in Gould, according to the Arkansas Department of Correctio ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...