Sri Lanka should implement the capital punishment for large scale drug traffickers, Prisons Commissioner General Jagath Weerasinghe asserted.

In its first 100 years, the local prison went from the least successful in the country to a global role model.

Demetrius Buckley, an award-winning prison writer, alleges officials retaliated against him for an article he published about ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

The 'Death Delayed' series looks at where Ohio's capital punishment system now stands and what will happen with it in the ...

Christopher Blattner, 45, was charged with killing 62-year-old Katherine Paquin, who disappeared from her Albuquerque home in ...

The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by ...

The article discusses sexual assault and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by ...

The Alabama Solution ( now streaming on HBO Max) is a documentary primed to make a difference. After a decade working on the ...

The article discusses sexual assault, and contains graphic descriptions that may be offensive to some readers. “Guarded by ...