ANGOLA, La. (WVUE) - A convicted murderer serving a life sentence died Tuesday (April 2) after a fight with three other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, prison officials said.

One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he… From a letter sent in January to the Gaston Gazette, a North Carolina newspaper, by Danny Hembree, a fifty-year-old death-row ...

She wrote about her experiences in a book called Death Row: The Final Minutes: My life as an execution witness in America's most infamous prison. She said: "On the day of an execution, the inmate ...

Prison officials have told a death row inmate he can choose how he dies. Richard Moore was told on Tuesday that he can choose ...

A death row inmate’s final words have ... to life without parole because of his spotless prison record and willingness to mentor other inmates. They also said it would be unjust to execute ...

It currently has 31. About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. Want to bookmark your ...

This issue has attracted public attention due to a rare audio recording of an exchange between a death row inmate, his sister and prison staff two days before the man was hanged. The recording ...

But now, only 31 remain. Around 20 inmates have been taken off death row after successfully appealing to the courts for a different sentence. Others have died in prison from natural causes during ...

It currently has 31. About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. Last month, five ...

Oklahoma has set execution dates nine times for death row inmate Richard Glossip ... no history of misconduct during his entire time in prison, and has maintained his innocence throughout a ...

Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate ... of the state prison system who says Moore deeply regrets his crime and is a force for good behind bars both for fellow inmates and ...