When Illinois shuttered the century-old maximum security facility last year, nearly four of every five inmates went to less-secure sites.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find ...

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states ...

A South Carolina man who is set to become the first inmate executed in the U.S. in 2025 says prosecutors convicted the wrong man, and that while he did deal drugs to the victim in the case ...