Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses.

Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.

He would be the second inmate executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...