In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

A death row inmate who killed a Visalia man and a lesbian couple in Oregon died at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

He tells her he’s working in the kitchen at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He’s got a job and friends? Well, she’ll rectify that. He asks Melissa if she received the photo of Brendan.

Reese also told lawmakers that the Oregon State Penitentiary is woefully outdated, comparing the state’s oldest prison to the infamous and now-shuttered Alcatraz. The prison health system ...

Keith Jesperson, known as the Happy Face Killer, raped and murdered eight women in the US in the 1990s - but his daughter Melissa Moore had no idea of his horrific crimes ...

Keith Rovere speaks daily to America's most notorious serial killers and violent offenders from the Happy Face Killer to Manson family members and the Cross-dressing Cannibal killer.

A 41-year-old man has been executed in the US state of Texas for the murder of a young mother more than 20 years ago, the ...

Texas executed Moises Mendoza for the 2004 murder of a young mother, marking the 13th U.S. execution this year amid ongoing ...

A 41-year-old man was executed in Texas for the brutal murder of a young mother more than 20 years ago, the 13th execution in ...