The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced it will reopen investigations into several prison deaths thanks to ...

Compounding the staffing problems is the growing prison population. Since December 2021, the number of state prisoners has increased from about 16,800 to 19,300, returning to pre-pandemic levels. Cain ...

Mississippi executed Charles Crawford by lethal injection, marking the state's second of 2025. Crawford spent moe than 30 ...

Charles Crawford was executed Wednesday in Mississippi after spending over 30 years on death row for the 1993 rape and murder ...

A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student was put to death ...

Gov. Tate Reeves will not step in to stop the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing a college student more than ...

Charles Ray Crawford, 59, was executed Wednesday night by lethal injection after Mississippi's governor said he had no ...

Records, interviews suggest thousands in custody have hepatitis C, but only a fraction are tested or receive treatment.

Marc McClure, regional superintendent of the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ northern region, told the Greenville ...

Charles Ray Crawford is set to be executed at 6 p.m., Oct. 15, after spending more than 30 years on death row for the rape ...

Advocates of Charles Crawford call for Mississippi to stop plans to execute the 59-year-old inmate on death row.

The U.S. Supreme Court and Mississippi Supreme Court denied last-minute emergency petitions to stay the execution of death ...