Nearly eight months after the first failed execution in Idaho history, the state prison system has in place changes to its lethal injection procedures in efforts to maintain capital punishment and ...

CHICAGO -- An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state's third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy ...

An Ada County judge dismissed the effort by Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner to prevent another attempt to execute him after prison officials failed to put him to death by lethal injection ...

House Bill 903, which called for sweeping changes in inmate lawsuits, mandatory minimum prison time, how inmates diagnosed with mental illness are treated and involuntary placement and treatment, ...

Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison ...

Alabama Death Row inmate Alan Eugene Miller said he has no intention of holding his breath or resisting his execution from nitrogen gas suffocation, but he’s worried the state will fail at securing ...

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Just hours before Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection in Michigan City, a group of about 30 people, dressed in coats and some holding flashlights, prayed for an end to the death penalty.