Not that Biden meant anything he said. In 2024, in the ultimate weasel move, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of federal ...

Multiple people were killed in a huge brawl at a U.S. prison, resulting in at least 10 people being charged. A huge brawl ...

Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.

Nevada prosecutors say 20 people have been charged in connection with a brawl at a maximum-security prison in eastern Nevada ...

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Barring any late developments, the U.S. is set to see its first execution by firing squad in 15 years on March 7, 2025.

First adopted in Nevada in 1922, executions using lethal gas were to take place while the condemned slept. Death row inmates were supposed to be housed in airtight, leak-proof prison cells, separate ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.