The decision marks the first time in more than 15 years that a San Mateo County district attorney will seek to execute an ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the ...

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk ...

Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids last year because of a laboratory mistake. Now hundreds ...

Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...

About the same time William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were defending the Alamo in San Antonio in 1836, a prison ...

Pearl Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in June 2018 for her involvement in the ...

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - An Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s report is detailing the cause of death for a man who died inside the Comanche County Detention Center in August of 2024 Terry Dorrell was in ...

Tennessee death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith picked his last meal ahead of his scheduled execution, the Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed. Smith, 75, is to die by lethal injection on ...

Death row inmate Brandy Bain Jennings, convicted of three 1995 murders at a Naples Cracker Barrel, has died of cancer. Jennings and accomplice Charles Jason Graves were convicted of robbing the ...