Before a former Delaware man was sentenced to life in prison on sex trafficking charges in Hawaii, he wrote a scathing letter ...

Isaiah McCoy, who exploited multiple victims including a minor, received life in prison in federal court, in a volatile ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 63, was an inmate at Donaldson prison. On Oct. 31, he was taken from the prison infirmary to UAB ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday. Gov. Kevin Sitt commuted his death sentence to life ...

"If we have to wait up until that moment and this is the result we get, we give all glory to the Creator for softening the ...

After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not clear when the state will carry out another. Five men remain on Indiana’s ...

Barbed wired fencing guides a path to a Kirkland Correctional Institution dorm in Columbia, SC. Gavin McIntyre [email protected] The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, just hours after being ...

Two-Year HuffPost Investigation Brings National Attention to a Mishandled Felony Murder Case View Entire Post › ...