A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when ...

South Carolina Opinion Editor Matthew T. Hall recently published a major multimedia project about the state's prison system.

Muhtadi, a 33-year-old accused Hamas-linked terrorist, was arrested in Louisiana earlier this month for allegedly partaking ...

The state of Florida has had 15 executions so far this year. Twice as many as last year. The execution ofNorman Grim raises ...

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

UAE Public Prosecution charges 9 Arab nationals for kidnapping, assault, and blackmail. Learn about the organized crime gang ...

Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was killed shortly after midnight on June 14 after two armed assailants stormed his villa in Badung, ...

A psychologist who examined Rodney Hinton Jr., the man accused of killing a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy by driving a car into him, has found that Hinton suffers from a serious mental illness that ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A Japanese court on Tuesday gave the death penalty to a 34-year-old man who killed four people, including two police officers. Masanori Aoki was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing ...