Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41. It was the first execution in Alabama ...

Let’s ride, Warden." As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital was being given, Nelson told Helene Noa Dubois, who married him recently while he was in prison, "Let me go to sleep." ...

James Lanier, 36, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, execution suspended after 12 years served, and 20 years of probation, according to a news release from Tolland Judicial District State’s ...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state's newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple ... was commuted to life in prison. But then he crushed another ...

One of the world’s biggest prisons, with a 40,000 capacity (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago. It now houses many thousands of the ...

My understanding of life in prison comes purely from the big screen — movies like The Shawshank Redemption or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. I am very thankful that this is the ...

The Miracles of Nature shadow puppet film, which was commissioned by the festival with the help of Make the Sunshine, a Shepton Mallet based community interest company. The company worked with a ...

Libyan authorities found nearly 50 bodies in two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert Monday, demonstrating the persistent dangers faced by migrants seeking passage to Europe through the ...