Bryan Stirling has a reputation as a moderate and dedicated public servant who has adroitly navigated crises such as a deadly ...

Bryan Stirling, head of state prison system for the past decade, is expected to be Trump's pick as top federal law ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for gunning down a New Mexico state police officer who had stopped to help him.

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

He began the crime spree on July 15, 2004 when he robbed a Winston-Salem, N.C. Exxon station of money and beer. He killed the 29-year-old clerk, Christopher Jason Boggs, shooting him twice in the face ...

A satellite view of the federal complex that includes Federal Correction Institution Butner Medium II, where a then-lieutenant violated an inmate’s civil rights in 2021. The former guard was ...

Mahdi, 42, was declared dead at 6:05 p.m. EDT at the Broad River Correctional Institute, according to the South Carolina Department ... on the law enforcement officer's property in Calhoun County ...

(WKRN) — A man has been taken into custody after a police pursuit in South Nashville early Friday ... According to Metro police, officers responded to a burglary call near Metroplex Drive.

COLUMBIA, S.C -- Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets.

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty ...