The historic Moundsville Penitentiary echoed with the buzz of tattoo guns as it hosted its third annual Locked Up Tattoo ...

Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha declared “solitary confinement is torture.” I wondered how much time she has spent inside a ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Wendell Grissom received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m.

An Oklahoma man has been executed for fatally shooting a woman during a home invasion and robbery 20 years ago.

Columnist Will Sutton looks at the execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr., with an eye on two journalists who saw something most of ...

Anti-death penalty advocates and representatives from many faiths called for an end to executions in Louisiana and wished ...

Three separate visitors to Washington State Penitentiary during the past week were arrested after arriving at the prison with ...

A convicted murderer and Louisiana death row inmate had his appeal denied hours before he is set to be executed by nitrogen ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., who was convicted in a 1996 murder, argued the method of nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ability to ...

One of six offenders charged in connection with the June 2022 beating death of a fellow inmate at Colorado State Penitentiary ...