The man, who had been serving a life sentence, broke out of the state’s newest prison on Christmas Eve, officials said.

Mozambique is experiencing escalating civil unrest linked to October’s disputed election, which extended long-ruling party ...

Dennis Perry’s DNA wasn’t a match for evidence in the murder of a Black couple nearly 40 years ago. Why an innocent man ...

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve was captured Wednesday, according to a ...

Authorities in Mississippi say a "desperate" and "very dangerous" convicted murderer, Drew Johnson, is back in custody after ...

A Georgia couple that pleaded guilty to sexually abusing their two adopted sons will now spend 100 years in prison without ...

Video of the deadly assault on Robert L. Brooks was “horrific,” “disturbing” and “devastating,” a lawyer for his family said ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the firing of more than a dozen prison staffers over a beating that resulted in the ...

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...

Fabio Ochoa arrived at Bogota's El Dorado airport on a deportation flight on Monday, wearing a grey sweatshirt and carrying ...

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 men on federal death row. The majority of them are held in Terre Haute ...

A Cambodian real estate entrepreneur, whose killing of a young couple sparked public outrage, has been sentenced to the ...