A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

Attorneys for Michael Wade Nance, who argued his compromised veins would make lethal injection painful, said they plan to ...

Georgia death row inmate suing to face firing squad What they're saying: Justice Elena Kagan, in the majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court, stated that Nance was not limited to proposing ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Over the years, several Georgia prison inmates have sent letters to this newspaper. Some are Pickens residents now incarcerated, and others may pick newspapers at random. In a couple of the more ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.