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

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 ...

Of all the strange, scary and just plain silly bills proposed by the Arizona Legislature, here's one it should actually ...

This morning, we are joined with Mr. Louis Bourgeois, who is the Executive Director of the Mississippi Prison Rights Initiative. Louis, good morning to you. Good morning to you. And ...

Presenting House Bill 37 to an Idaho House committee, bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa called the firing squad “more ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said Thursday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed ... Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence.

The death row inmate continues to maintain his innocence. But “he cannot in good conscience ask for a supposed mercy that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did ...

(UPDATE) TOKYO — The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...