More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

“There is a part of the warden that dies with the prisoner,” wrote Donald Cabana, who oversaw multiple executions as warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary before becoming an opponent of capital ...

Professor Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law will speak on the American prison system and the transformation of punishment as part of the continuing UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings Social ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

FILE - The Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is surrounded by fencing in this 2017 file photo in Lancaster, Mass. Two months after two correctional officers were stabbed while working at ...