The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands. In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was ...

This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the execution room at the Broad River ...

Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, in a life he’d mostly spent on death row.

Natural light fills the home’s four bedrooms, six full bathrooms, grand salon, family room and a remarkable study overlooking Transamerica Pyramid Center and Alcatraz. The residence is served by ...

If his execution moves forward ... He had been renting a room in Dick’s home for about six months and had known the family for years, according to archived news stories. Drunk and high on ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

A Florida death row inmate convicted of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl and murdering her grandmother is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution. Edward James, 63 ...

Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 7, Brad ...