Capital punishment has existed in NC since colonial times. Only lethal injection remains legal, but Iryna's law could expand ...

“There is a part of the warden that dies with the prisoner,” wrote Donald Cabana, who oversaw multiple executions as warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary before becoming an opponent of capital ...

The proposal was added to Iryna's Law during debate late Monday evening. It added a partisan element to a bill that had ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the ...