The method was similar to 'Ripper' Jayanandan, a death row prisoner who had in 2013 escaped from Poojapura Central Prison.

An Oklahoma City man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for possession of child pornography, officials say.

The Hidden Toll of Jacksonville’s Jail System Words by Carmen Macri and Ambar Ramirez We’re quick to place the blame on the convicted. The ones locked behind bars. But how often do we question the ...

Chief Judge Shelly Dick dismissed the lawsuit in early July, nearly three years after parents moved to stop the state's plans ...

A federal judge in Maryland may soon become the second to block President Donald Trump’s order restricting birthright ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing ...

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...

The British grandmother who has spent the last 12 years on death row made a telling act in the ‘hope she will be released’. Lindsay Sandiford was locked up in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison back in January ...

PALESTINE, Texas — A hearing that could set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will be held next week.

Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is set to appear in court on Wednesday.

The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday tentatively scheduled an Oct. 10 execution date for death-row inmate Roy Lee Ward.

Authorities launched a homicide investigation after a man was found stabbed to death near Oshkosh's Menominee Park on Saturday night.