Juries in Texas - the nation's most-active death penalty state - sentenced only eight killers to die this year, the lowest number since 1976 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended its ban on capital ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly 1,400 lifers in California's prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with the ...

The number of people serving life sentences in U.S. prisons is surging. According to a new report issued by the Sentencing Project, nearly 162,000 inmates are serving a life sentence, one out of every ...

The number of women inmates serving life without the possibility of parole has risen 43% since 2008, adding to an already aging prison population nationwide, according to a new report from the ...

The number of death sentences worldwide jumped by almost 500 last year compared to 2013, mainly due to a sharp spike in sentences handed out in Egypt and Nigeria, says Amnesty International. Amnesty’s ...

Iran will pardon or commute the sentences of a large number of prisoners as part of an annual amnesty, state media reported Sunday, although it is unclear how this will apply to people arrested in the ...