A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, officials said. The body was originally discovered by hunters in October ...

Governor Jeff Landry announced a state of emergency was declared and that Louisiana will start doing execution by nitrogen ...

Patrick Grayson Spann escaped from the Hinds County detention facility in Mississippi, took a dead man's name and had two ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out ...

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

A man sentenced to life in prison in 1978 on a Colbert County murder conviction is up for parole this week, authorities said.

A Saudi PhD student at Leeds University who was given a 34-year jail sentence for posts on X has been freed, according to ...

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept ...

An Alabama death row inmate who raped and murdered a woman in 1991 was executed this week using nitrogen gas, making him the ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

Yesterday, US prisoner Demetrius Terrence Frazier uttered his final words before being executed at Holman Correctional ...

Frazier was the state’s first execution of 2025, and the fourth carried out by nitrogen hypoxia. Frazier was executed for the 1991 rape and murder of Pauline Brown. Prosecutors said Frazier broke into ...