A bill that would permit people incarcerated for crimes committed decades ago to petition for a sentence reduction appears to ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed on March 19. He asked for two nonlegal witnesses to be present for his execution.

A proposed law would require the state Department of Correction to produce a report on what it would take to institute ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...

A proposed law would make Connecticut's Department of Correction investigate for a second time using body scanners to reduce ...

Yes, all prisoners are targeted, and the harshness of their treatment varies only in degree, with the most severe treatment ...

A 39-year-old Los Angeles County deputy sheriff accused of smuggling heroin to inmates reportedly conspired with gang “shot-callers” using a secret code and tubes of Pringles chips to move the ...

COLUMBIANA – A investigation is now underway after the death of an inmate at the Shelby County Jail on Friday March 7. On Friday, Feb. 21, Phillip Randall Ledford, age 55 of Pelham, was arrested by ...

A man who was present at Brad Sigmon's execution on Friday has recalled the moments leading up to the death row inmate's ...

Deputy Michael Meiser, assigned to a specialized sheriff's department unit that monitored gang activity inside the jail ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...