State officials have tried to add restrictions to the tablets, but prisoners say there are ways to easily bypass them.

Leroy McGill was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004. The state will kill him by lethal injection on May 20.

Gavin Newsom has sought to transform California’s massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom ...

Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller’s office filed a notice of intent to pursue the death penalty after reviewing the case, and ...

But inmates told us a different story. For some, the devices have become personal sex machines. In the words of one inmate, ...

The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the rape and ...

The previously hard-to-find book, rereleased by the owners of the Graveface Museum, is the latest unboxed cultural artifact ...

Thursday’s execution was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “pending further order” from the court.

A man who was wrongly convicted and ended up spending almost two decades on death row has explained the one thing he wanted ...

Horner will remain at the prison until he dies by lethal injection — which could range anywhere from years to decades from ...

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the execution by the state of an individual who has been convicted of ...