Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, who has died aged 78 in a house fire in Connemara, campaigned internationally to abolish the death penalty after her own experience of almost 17 years in prison in the US, five ...

A disgruntled Florida man killed his ex-girlfriend’s toddler daughter a week after she dumped him — and will now spend the ...

Three felony convictions out of Cayuga County were upheld this week by a state appellate court, cementing long prison sentences for the defendants involved in robbery, assault, and two separate murder ...

Son was convicted of one count of felony torture (the statute of limitations had run out on the sexual assault charges) and ...

Grant Hardin’s 12-day escape ended just 1.5 miles from prison—joining a list of infamous Arkansas escapes, from violent ...

Latavious Johnson, a death row inmate, was pronounced dead at about 3:30 p.m. at the Varner Supermax in Gould, according to ...

Aaron Goodwin confronted his estranged wife Victoria Goodwin for conspiring to murder him. The Ghost Adventures star, 49, ...

Two Ohio men were sentenced to life in prison Friday for operating a violent human trafficking ring in south Columbus and murdering a 39-year-old, Attorney General ...

A Riverside County death row inmate was allegedly killed by another prisoner at Kern Valley State Prison on Friday morning, ...

The girlfriend of a Columbus mother accused of killing 8-year-old Martonio Wilder was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, ...

New photos show Joyce Mitchell living a bleak, reclusive life in upstate New York nearly 10 years to the day after she helped Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility.