The first inmate executed, Freddie Owens, requested no autopsy because of religious reasons. When South Carolina restarted executions in September, the state established new procedures as they ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KTIV) - Authorities are looking into the death of an inmate at a jail in South Dakota. An investigation is underway by the South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigations into the ...

South Carolina.According to SCDC, close security facilities are high-security facilities designed primarily to house violent offenders with longer sentences, and inmates who exhibit behavioral ...

This undated image provided by shows Brad Sigmon, convicted of beating to death his estranged girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...