Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in his quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the nearly ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

Sunday marked 17 years since a shooting at Lane Bryant that left five women dead rocked south suburban Tinley Park in ...

This is Nebraska’s first trip to the West Coast in the new Big Ten. First up is Oregon on Sunday. "Now we gonna go on the road and take this ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...