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The execution brought new attention to the death penalty debate in the U.S. as opponents said it was proof that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment

Many inmates dream of a special meal while in prison, but few have the leverage to demand it -- and David Pedersen did

The search widened Sunday for three inmates who escaped with the help of a helicopter from a detention center in Quebec City a day earlier

There have never been more people with serious mental illnesses living in Alaska’s jails and prisons than there are today

Current furor over the trade of the five Taliban prisoners for American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may have complicated the situation

First lethal injections in the nation since a botched execution in Oklahoma seven weeks ago

$840-million California Health Care Facility was supposed to help the state’s prison system emerge from a decade of federal oversight

Kristine Zgoba, whose research on sexual crimes and sex offender laws has been extensive, proposed testing sex crime legislation in the United Kingdom in terms of its impact on sex offense rates

Court also lifted a stay of execution that it had granted earlier in the week

Megan Huntsman, 39, told police she either strangled or suffocated them immediately after they were born