Murderer found hanged in prison
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - California prison officials  put three-time murderer Donald Beardslee to death by lethal  injection on Wednesday, in the the first execution in the state  for three years.
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Police confirm a convicted killer is missing from  Prescoed jail  in Monmouthshire, the seventh absconder in three months.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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A confessed serial killer was put away for the rest of his life Tuesday after being convicted in a murder case brought by Michigan prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison less two years from now.
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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A member of a gang who murdered LVF leader Billy Wright in the Maze prison is found dead in his jail cell.
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A man is arrested in connection with the murder of teacher Louise Evans, found stabbed to death outside a prison .
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STOCKHOLM: The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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A life sentence prisoner who murdered a former police officer in Armagh six years ago is found dead.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man convicted of murdering a couple who discovered him burglarizing their home in 1999 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.
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A man who murdered his wife of 28 days after a row over him looking at women in short skirts is jailed for life.
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Elijah Page first to die in 60 years South Dakota yesterday executed its first prisoner in 60 years, 25-year-old Elijah Page, who succumbed to a "lethal combination of three drugs at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls", the local Argus Leader reports.â¦
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Detectives are investigating the deaths of two inmates who were both found hanged at Manchester Prison.
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A man who shot his wife to death because she wanted to leave him was executed Wednesday, the first Ohio inmate put to death using new injection guidelines adopted because the last execution was plagued with problems.