When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

And lastly, if there is serious physical injury as a result of the fleet, you can be charged with the Class B felony, which is 5 to 20 years in the penitentiary," he said. The Arkansas State ...

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Alabama in 2024 became the first state to carry out a nitrogen gas execution. Now, at least two states are looking to follow in its path.

Several protesters gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary praying for peace while convicted killer Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was executed. Thursday, March 20, at 10:13 a.m. marks the first ...

Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, marking the state’s return to capital ...

Arkansas authorities arrested a 61-year-old man after officials found his elderly mother living in “deplorable” conditions ...

FILE - Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) ...