COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the defendant in the case.

No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 has given mercy ...

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known for its harsh conditions.

Each person on federal death row was convicted of murder or charges ... a nonviolent drug charge for a man who previously served a prison sentence for the killings of two people.

A man held on Arkansas's death row after being convicted of a 1993 quadruple murder in Jacksonville died in prison Thursday, ...

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request to transfer John Hanson was denied. He murdered a retired Tulsa banker and an Owasso trucking company owner in 1999.

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole as they seek to appeal their cases ...