No charges filed in custody death of David Batts, with meningitis listed as the cause, not police confrontation.

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31 by lethal injection is requesting a delay until more information is gathered about the drug that will kill him.

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with ...

Johnny Cash revealed the one thing about doing prison concerts that surprised him the most, and no, it wasn't the inmates' ...

added that the vast majority of inmates on federal death row were grateful for Biden's decision, "which is constitutionally authorized and absolute." The Justice Department's Office of the Pardon ...

Get top local stories in San Diego delivered ... director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, added that the vast majority of inmates on federal death row were grateful for Biden's ...

SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part ... Halprin, 47, was among the group of inmates known as the "Texas 7," who ...