Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn't have ...

USAID, NIH, federal workforce, public media — the cuts are ham-handed, reckless, arbitrary and, in many cases, do more harm ...

A real estate developer is suing Hezbollah and Iraqi officials in US federal court for her torture and kidnapping ...

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced well-known election watchdog Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison after it ...

Quintavious Jamar Mack, who escaped from a work release Wednesday morning has been recaptured, according to the Alabama ...

A 35-year-old Alabama Department of Corrections inmate escaped custody Wednesday while taking part in a work release program ...

An Alabaster man was sentenced to over 100 years in prison after being found guilty of rape, sodomy and incest in a case ...

Correctional officers often dictate end-of-life care for incarcerated people who are terminally ill. Most states either don’t have a formal policy or are given leeway — a big concern for families and ...

FILE - This undated image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate James Osgood, who was sentenced to death for the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown. (Alabama ...