Governor Tony Evers is calling for changes after authorities say an inmate admitted to killing his cellmate at Green Bay ...

In what one anti-death penalty group called "extraordinary," six men have been executed in the U.S. since Sept. 20. Two more ...

A death row inmate who stabbed twin teenage girls and their mom to death made a chilling final statement before he was put to ...

ATLANTA (CN) — The Justice Department unveiled findings Tuesday that critical understaffing and enablement of gangs in ...

At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had ...

Georgia prison officials are “deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and ...

A Pennsylvania man has served 43 years of a life sentence for murder, pursuing appeals without success. Now, he's hoping for a legal breakthrough.