A Texas man set to die this month is at the center of another push for clemency in the U.S., this time backed by several GOP ...

Redemption features as a strong theme among Jewish, Latter-day Saints, and Catholic perspectives about the death penalty in ...

South Park Mexican, also known as SPM, will go up before the parole board on Monday (October 7). The Houston rapper was handed a 45-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine in 2002 after being ...

Twice in the past decade the Supreme Court has blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip. Now the state has joined ...

Fears for prisoner denied parole in landmark public hearing over indefinite jail term - Exclusive: IPP prisoner Nicholas ...

Texas rarely grants clemency for death row inmates, but that's not stopping a group of bipartisan lawmakers from showing ...

A campaign to free five women, known as the "Mississippi Five," shows how prison populations throughout the region are aging.

The Mattis decision in January ruled it was a cruel or unusual punishment to impose a life sentence on certain emerging ...

The case gained national attention when former LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus was arrested 23 years after the crime thanks ...

A state parole panel reversed an earlier decision that could have freed former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus from a life ...

A chance for parole was rescinded Wednesday for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life ...