These older inmates manipulated younger ones who freshly joined them; they lured the minors with tea, garri and little things to force them to commit sodomy. The minors sometimes fall for the tricks ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

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Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murdering Kaylee Martin and setting her body on fire in South Carolina’s Dorchester County.

Charleston Co. has been again named as a defendant in litigation alleging inadequacies in medical care at the county jail ...

Tennessee is citing confidentiality laws intended to protect the identities of individuals involved in executions.

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

On his final day in office Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death ...