South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

A Kanawha County man will spend at least two decades in prison after being convicted of sex crimes against a minor, ...

Handmade weapons, unauthorized electronics equipment and other items that could be fashioned or used as weapons are what the South Dakota Department of Corrections said ...

Two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, and three others were ...

Convicted murderer Freddie Owens, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Sept. 20. It will be the first ...