The U.S. government on Wednesday announced it will seek the death penalty for an Oklahoma inmate charged with killing one ...

Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the final appeal of an Horry County death row inmate. The decision means Stephen Stanko ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie expressed remorse and shed tears as he pleaded Monday for the state’s parole board ...

The Indiana State Parole Board will hold a clemency hearing on Monday for a man convicted of killing a Beech Grove police ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

Embattled former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at age 91. Ryan, who served as Illinois' governor from 1999 to 2003, passed away Friday morning after spending the last few days in hospice care, ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WAWV/WTWO) — An inmate already serving multiple life ... The medical examiner ruled the official cause of death to be asphyxiation and determined the manner of death as ...

Prosecutors said Mebane was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute and was serving a ... examiner ruled the official cause of death to be asphyxiation and determined the ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.–A former inmate at the Federal Correctional Facility in Terre Haute has received another life sentence, this time for killing his cellmate at the facility in 2016. Joshua Mebane, 29, ...