WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal injection in the southern US states of ...

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 ...

A Queens man has pleaded guilty to threatening to choke a federal judge to death during a court appearance last year after the jurist ruled against him in a civil lawsuit. Kenneth Ward, 59, made his ...

The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges in connection with a crash out of a North Dakota ...

The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks County.

The recommendation by Gov. Shapiro's administration comes amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

SCI Rockview, Pennsylvania’s first State Correctional Institution to contain a “death house,” could close down soon after recommendations from the Department of ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says a DOC steering committee report proposes closing SCI Rockview in Centre County and Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County. The DOC ...

An inmate serving time for the brutal Christmas morning murder of a Philadelphia woman has died in a Pennsylvania state ...