According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Pete Buttigieg, formerly mayor of South Bend, Ind., said he is “taking a serious look” at Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, ...

A previously escaped inmate named John Matthew Nigh was arrested around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. A press conference will take place Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Craven County Sheriff’s Office.

A Michigan man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for traveling to sexually abuse a minor who lived in Washington.

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 ...

Fresh food was easy to come by when Teri Castle began serving time in the West Virginia Department of Corrections. Women ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

Keith Daniel Freerksen, a registered sex offender from South Haven Township, Michigan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain ...

Jordan Warmbein, Daniel Armstrong and two children have not been seen since Jan. 24. Armstrong previously was convicted of ...

Jerry Yelli died at the Reception and Treatment Center near Southwest 27th and West Van Dorn streets while being treated for ...

An Alabama death row inmate was executed Feb. 6 by nitrogen hypoxia at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, just outside ...