Robin Dion “Rocky” Myers called his lawyer a liar. “I kind of regretted it as soon as I said it,” Myers told AL.com through the phone. “I kind of slapped myself.” The remark came as he was stunned to ...

A prisoner who was serving time for burglary beat a fellow inmate to death in an “unimaginable scene of savagery and cruelty” ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

But for those targeted by Indonesia's strict drug laws, inmates are kept in pained isolation as they await the 72-hour notice ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional ...

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction ...