A few hours after an FBI raid on his Cordova family home in Memphis, Tennessee, rapper Pooh Shiesty was arrested in relation ...

After the death of nine prisoners in the past three months, state legislators are calling for sweeping changes to improve health care in Connecticut prisons. Both Democrats and Republicans are backing ...

A man on California's death row has died while incarcerated at a Sacramento-area prison, state officials said on Thursday.

The judge is to send his report by tomorrow to the Florida Supreme Court, which had stayed James Duckett’s execution.

James Hitchcock, sentenced to death four times for a 1976 murder, is set for execution in Florida on April 30.

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the state is systematically blocking access to public records regarding lethal ...

We asked the most prominent candidates, Democrats and Republicans, how they envisioned handling the death penalty if elected.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man charged in a brutal killing spree in north Florida and south Georgia.

Ron DeSantis has conducted a record number of executions as governor.

Tommy Zeigler -- who has been on Florida's death row for nearly 50 years -- is asking an Orange County court to dismiss his convictions in the brutal killings of his wife, parents and customer in his ...