NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly ...

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More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.

And the state needs a smaller, more modern prison to house and rehabilitate women who committed serious crimes. The existing ...

A judge has ruled that Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent enough to be executed for the 1986 kidnapping and death of a Utah woman. Her son said her family is pleased by the ruling.

FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona death row inmate who murdered his wife and young daughter has died in what the Department of Corrections is calling an apparent suicide.

She was serving a two-year sentence for battery out of Kenosha County when she allegedly attacked her cellmate. She now faces ...

A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin's women's prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide.