For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...

Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for his role in the murder of James Byrd Jr, but it was his last meal request that prompted a major change in history across prisons ...

New allegations are detailed in a lawsuit claiming a Houston man was beaten to death by guards in a private Louisiana jail.

William Gossett, 49, of New Boston, was arrested in connection with the robberies at local convenience stores in Mount ...

Nearly 40,000 prisoners in England and Wales have been granted early release under the government’s scheme to tackle ...

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...

Amos Nyanway, a 25-year-old officer with the Travis County Sheriff's Office in Austin, was booked on a misdemeanor charge of ...

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If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.