Utah is the only state to have used firing squads in the past 50 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

For the third session in a row, Montana lawmakers are considering a bill intended to allow the state to again administer the ...

Cook County, Illinois Deputy Shamone Duncan, 50, was shot along with local resident Dario Stubbs outside a restaurant on ...

A judge on Tuesday dismissed only part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Nevada Department of Corrections alleging that the death of an inmate who was beaten before being found ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

A man who admitted to abusing dozens of local children has died. Louis Van Wie died on Jan. 14, the New York State Department of Corrections said. He was 82 years old.

The Rifle Correctional Center is at risk of closing as state officials consider cost-cutting measures to address a budget ...

From unemployment to call centers, the governor provided her rationale for rejecting over a dozen bills passed by Democrats ...

Montana State Prison Warden Jim Salmonsen has been placed on leave, according to the Montana Department of Corrections.

While would-be insurrectionists rejoiced at the sentence commutations and outright pardons, police and politicians called the ...