Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

Also, Stacey Solomon returns with a new series of Sort Your Life Out and Storyville meets the San Quentin prisoners training ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

After being caught, Ramirez was convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 ...

If you struck up a conversation with Phil Cherney you’d realize quickly he was a passionate man. In fact, it’s the word most ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

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

Show more Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison in California, three men sentenced to life for murder undertake running a marathon. Training all year, their route is unconventional ...

I love everyone on Death Row. Let’s go ... according to Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm. He added that he believed that Frazier quickly lost consciousness after the gas was ...

the communications director for the Department of Corrections, said Joiner was found dead inside the East Arkansas Regional Unit on Feb. 2.Arkansas State Police is investigating Joiner's death.

Michael Lee Wood has been in prison for 47 years, serving a life sentence for murder. But that’s only half of the story.

state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera, who has been incarcerated since 2011 for second-degree murder and intentionally discharging a firearm causing injury or death, used the weapon to ...