A Madison County inmate has died as a result of an assault that happened while he was serving time behind bars.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

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Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT ... Peeples announced that Anthony Ray Lawrence was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by a life term of supervised release. The news release said in October ...

Lawyers for Demetrius Frazier, an Alabama inmate set to die in two weeks, said Friday they are no longer asking that he be sent back to a Michigan prison, where he could be spared from execution ...

The Michigan prison system doesn’t plan to intervene ... now arguing that executive agreement was unlawful, and asking the inmate to be sent back to Michigan. Michigan does not have the death ...