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 ...

Months after it was overturned, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court has reinstated the conviction of a man convicted in connection ...

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.

Death Row Records has launched 2025 with the release of Death Row Revue, a compilation album now available via Death Row Records/gamma. Curated by Snoop Dogg, the album celebrates the label’s dynamic ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

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.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder who is expected to be executed in early January, has released a four-page letter ...

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