Gerald Banyard jailed for 12 months after harassment, including sending death threats, of his brother and sister-in-law ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's story is told in the documentary short, "I Am Ready, Warden," which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won his case ...

Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on March 18, has filed a new federal lawsuit challenging ...

Attorneys for quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger have filed documents that may allow them to nod to an autism spectrum ...

The Vatican's early Friday update also suggested a level of normalcy and routine as the 88-year-old pope continues recovering at Rome's Gemelli hospital.

Newly appointed “pardon czar” Alice Marie Johnson’s role has been met with cautious optimism from decarceration advocates, given President Donald Trump’s unpredictable stance on criminal justice ...

After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis continued to improve from double pneumonia Thursday, the Vatican said, working from his hospital ...

Friday, an inmate on South Dakota’s death row will be back in Federal Court in Sioux Falls; trying one last time to spare his ...

The Supreme Court is right to defend its power by saying Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip deserves a new trial.

Attorneys for a man on death row for the 1997 shooting death of a downtown bar owner during a robbery filed a motion Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court asking for permission to have ...