Authorities have identified the 62-year-old inmate who died in a hospital after falling ill in a communal room at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., is connected to a prison where an inmate died, leaving 21 inmates on death row.

Wesley Shermantine, one-half of the California duo known as the “Speed Freak Killers,” has died in prison, state officials announced. Shermantine, 60, and his childhood friend Loren Herzog became ...

Lawyers for a longtime Florida death row inmate have asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt his execution, which is set for ...

Riverside County will get an independent medical examiner to replace the coroner, which now reports to the elected sheriff.

Condemned serial killer Wesley Howard Shermantine, one of the notorious “Speed Freak Killers” of the 1980s and 1990s, died Thursday at a state prison near Folsom, where he was on the state’s death row ...

Indica Higley faces life without either of her parents in the wake of her father Seneca Higley's death at Caesar's Palace.

Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine is shown at the time of his conviction, left, and in 2024. Shermantine, one of the “Speed Freak Killers,” died Thursday at California State Prison, Folsom.

A South Carolina death row inmate died Monday morning at Kirkland Correctional Institution after an extended illness, according to the South Carolina Department Maria Bartiromo breaks silence after ...

Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Sacramento Gov. Gavin Newsom, a possible presidential candidate, is seriously considering ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Cameron County jail inmate was pronounced dead Sunday morning while in custody. Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Trevino said in a statement that the inmate was ...