All news on the topic: Department of Corrections

Death row killer Ivan Cantu, who was convicted in 2001 for the 2000 murders of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend in Texas, was put to death on Wednesday despite pushes from Kim Kardashian to stay the execution

Professor Jon Yorke, Director of the Centre for Human Rights at Birmingham City University, described the execution of Kenneth Smith as a 'bad day for humanity'

Kenneth Eugene Smith will become the first-ever American to be executed by toxic nitrogen gas in Alabama - but Rev Dr Jeff Hood fears he will die too as he sits by his side as his spiritual advisor

Reeva Steenkamp's mother June appeared on Wednesday's episode of ITV's Good Morning Britain in her first UK TV interview since Oscar Pistorius' release from jail

Florida's Department of Corrections said incarcerated persons have been "relocated to facilities better equipped to weather the impacts of the storm" as forecasts expect the hurricane to become a Category 3 by the time it makes landfall in Florida and Georgia

Johnny Johnson, 45, received a a lethal dose of pentobarbital at a state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. CDT, authorities said

The inmate donned the uniform and attempted to walk out of the facility in Brooklyn, New York, undetected by knocking on a locked door where and an unsuspecting officer let him out

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

The teenager stabbed Kayla Green during huge brawl after a parade in Mount Vernon, New York State, US, marking the state championship won by the high school boys' basketball team

Scott Eizember, 62, will be killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, US, for the deaths of A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70