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 ...

Corcoran is set to be put to death by lethal injection before sunrise ... can hear people talking about him through the walls of his cell and that he says embarrassing or provocative things ...

A California judge denies a petition for release or retrial but the legal team vows to continue to fight the conviction ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a ...

"A few days before his execution, Brandon’s family visited him for the last time. After the visit, Brandon told me there was ...

Joe Biden’s commutations for 37 of 40 people on federal death row brought relief for those who feared another killing spree ...

A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used ... “Her death was confirmed at a hospital on Thursday” after she was found lying in her cell at the Osaka detention centre, a ...

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place ...

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of ...

A chorus of supporters and critics have emerged following the commutation of nearly every federal death row inmate by ...