A new lawsuit launched by 21 of the 37 convicts whose death sentences were controversially commuted by President Biden at the ...

QUITE how one manages to fashion two blades out of a metal baking tray is anyone’s guess. But that’s exactly what convicted ...

Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...

I lived in a concrete cell in South Carolina. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, in solitary confinement.

The remorseless killer has been in the Colorado supermax since he murdered his cellmate in federal prison in 2002 and not behaved any better since. Petty almost killed two prison library staff in ...

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North Carolina prisons have seen an uptick in suicides and people with mental health diagnoses among the ongoing use of ...

FILE - Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) Advertisement ...

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