Lawyers for David Pittman say his execution would violate the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual ...

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled to be executed next month, which could extend the state's record number of inmates put to death in a single year.

A Volusia County inmate attempting to escape jail was caught in razor wire before he could get far, officials said.

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in the 11th execution this year by the state of Florida.

More than 33 years after he murdered three people in Orange County, Curtis Windom was executed Thursday evening at Florida State Prison. Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 ...

Officers found inmate Ardit Billa unresponsive in his cell at around 12:25 a.m. on Saturday, according to Patrick Rocchio, a city Department of Corrections spokesperson ... across several states, ...

The execution is to be carried out at 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) at the Florida State Prison. There have been 29 executions in the United States in 2025, the most since 2014, when a total of 35 inmates were ...

Before it became a prison, the California Correctional Facility in Norco was a luxury hotel, sanitorium and Navy hospital.

York County Commissioners recently approved new vendors for the jail, made several hiring decisions, and agreed to join two ...

Georgia inmates ran a phone scam from inside prison, posing as police to extort sex offenders. Ohio prosecutors say the fraud ...

Lucy Johnson didn’t know a shuttered prison down the road would soon hold as many as 2,000 immigrant detainees until a reporter told her. Standing under her ...

A former state corrections officer has been arrested and accused of mistreating an inmate and lying about the incident.