A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death ...

The execution by lethal injection of an inmate on death row in the US state of Tennessee was halted after medical staff were ...

Defense attorneys allege the state has used expired or incorrect drugs and improper dosages during lethal injections. Appeals ...

A Washington appeals court has revived a lawsuit that challenged the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) for punishing inmates after “unreliable” drug testing. The case, brought by ...

A former Florida Department of Corrections employee was arrested after police said she robbed a bank, apparently for rent money. The alleged robber, Mary Adolphus, was arrested on robbery with firearm ...

A former Department of Correction director was fined $35,000 for a long list of ethics violations including helping his daughter cheat through an interview, giving his girlfriend department ammunition ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) – The Pennsylvania Attorney General has charged two SCI corrections officers and a former inmate with trafficking drugs into SCI Fayette. Corrections officers Beau Angelo, 37, ...

Florida executed James Hitchcock, 70, by lethal injection on Thursday, April 30, for the 1976 rape and strangulation murder of his 13-year-old step-niece Cynthia "Cindy" Driggers. It was Florida's ...

James Ernest Hitchcock received a lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison for the July 1976 killing of Cynthia Driggers A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother's ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has finalized settlements totaling more than $1.2 million on behalf of 31 people who were subjected to abusive conditions at Miami ...