New Orleans, La. (WLBT) - Months after it was overturned, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court has reinstated the conviction of a man ...

Terry Pitchford was put back on Mississippi's death row after Attorney General Lynn Fitch appealed a federal judge's ruling ...

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...

An internal review and investigation are underway after officials said an inmate died following a medical incident at the George County Regional Correctional Facility ...

A Christmas Day attack claimed the life of corrections officer Andrew Lansing at the Ross County Correctional Institution in ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections has announced the capture of a convicted killer who escaped on Christmas Eve.

The loss of a staff person is difficult, but to lose a family member on Christmas Day at the hands of someone in our custody is a tragedy beyond comprehension.” ...

Days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal ...

President Joe Biden, as is not uncommon for chief executives about to leave office, has spent his last days dispensing ...

President Biden commutes the death sentence of former NOPD officer Len Davis, convicted of ordering Kim Groves’ 1994 murder ...

President Joe Biden changed the sentence for most federal death row prisoners on Dec. 23. Know who gets a life sentence, where they were convicted.

With just a few weeks left in his term, President Joe Biden may commute sentences for the 40 inmates currently on death row, which includes Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, sources told ...