The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has adopted new execution protocols, including the use of nitrogen ...

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.

A pair of athletic shoes — among the most popular brands in the country — kick-started an investigation that would lead to ...

This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, the bill’s lead sponsor.

Frazier is set to die by nitrogen gas for the murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. Critics say the method ...

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for ...

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health confirmed the first pediatric flu death of the 2024-25 season on Friday, Jan. 24. The department does not provided information about the age, gender or ...