A judge on Friday sentenced McKinley Louisma to life in prison without parole for the kidnapping, torture and strangulation ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

The man found guilty of murdering 20-year-old Melody Hoffman, who was found dead near Lily Lake earlier this year, heard his ...

Notorious California inmate Richard J. Hirschfield, sentenced to death in connection with the 1980 “Sweetheart Murders,” a ...

The manhunt continues for 34-year-old Cesar Hernandez, who escaped from a prison van in Southern California two weeks ago.

The Pardon and Parole Board on Friday declined to recommend mercy for a child killer facing a Dec. 19 execution.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County woman who was found guilty on 21 counts in the murder of an eight-year-old girl in ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously denied clemency for death row inmate Kevin Underwood, who was convicted of ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate who was described as a "deeply evil monster" was denied clemency Friday. Kevin Ray Underwood, 44 ...

Cleveland County jurors convicted Underwood in 2008 and sentenced him to death for Bolin’s murder, which was planned, ...

Cesar M. Hernandez, 34, jumped out of a prison van and evaded staff at the Kern County Superior Courthouse on Dec. 2. Here's ...