Prisons Secret Release

2009-12-30T17:16:45Z

In these undated photos provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections are inmates Derrick King, 48, Alfred Wooten, 40, and Quince Campbell, 25. They are three of at least 18 men released this fall from prison under a se...

Virginia Execution

2009-11-17T18:34:45Z

This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows an electric chair. Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to be executed by choice of electrocution Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 for the January 2001 shooting deaths of 25-year-old Dana Thrall and 30-year-old

Inmate Grenade

2009-11-16T11:01:21Z

In this image made from a March 2005 video released Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, a prison guard points to the the spot where a non-lethal grenade landed after it was thrown into an inmate's cell at the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, Illinois Department of Corrections shows Brian Dugan. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, a DuPage County jury in Wheaton, Ill., said that Dugan should be executed for the kidna...

Sniper Execution

2009-11-10T09:17:15Z

FILE -This recent but undated photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, 2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around...

DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad Executed In Virginia

2009-11-10T08:31:14Z

JARRATT, VA - UNDATED: In this undated handout photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections, shows the gurney in which convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will be put to death at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,

Sniper Grip of Fear

2009-11-10T00:31:05Z

FILE -This 2004 file photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the execution gurney at the Greensville Correctional Center's death row in Jarratt, Va. Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesda...

Bomb Plot Arrest

2009-09-24T18:00:39Z

This undated photo released Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Michael C. Finton. Finton, 29, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees after attempting to detonate what he ...

Slain Student Appeal

2009-09-22T11:34:45Z

FILE - This undated photo released by Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., of Crookston, Minn. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 affirmed the death sentence of the convicted rapist in the 2003 kidnapping and death of National Civil Police arrest two suspects of an attack against a vehicle of Guatemala's Prison System, in which officer Prudencio Pineda was killed on September 7, 2009 in Guatemala City. Three officers of the Prison System were killed a...

GUATEMALA-POLICE-VIOLENCE-ATTACKS

2009-09-07T12:25:58Z

Members of the National Civil Police observe and AK-47 rifle as they arrest two suspects of an attack against a vehicle of Guatemala's Prison System, in which officer Guillermo Padilla was killed on September 7, 2009 in Gleorgia Department of Corrections shows Charman Sinkfield. Sinkfield was arrest Wednesday Aug. 12, 2009 by U.S. Marshals and was charged in the robbery and shooting death of ex-boxing champion

Sweethearts Slaying

2009-08-01T03:45:10Z

This July 31, 2009 photo provided by the Louisville, Ky. Metropolitan Department of Corrections shows Edward Edwards. Prosecutors on Friday charged the Kentucky man with killing high schoo...

People Kelsey Grammer

2009-07-28T04:00:23Z

This undated photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows Freddie Glenn who is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder in 1975 of Karen Grammer, the sister of "Frasier" star Michigan Department of Corrections, the Rev. Edward Pinkney is shown. The southwestern Michigan minister who spent six months in prison for criticizing a judge has persuaded the state appeals court Wednesday, July 15, 2009 to throw out his probation v...

Student Strangled

2009-07-08T15:00:50Z

FILE - This photo of Darryl Littlejohn, taken July 29, 2003, when he was using the alias "Jonathan Blaze," was released by the New York Department of Corrections Tuesday, March 7, 2006. The former Manhattan nightclub bouncer was se...

California Lethal Injection

2009-07-01T00:03:17Z

In this photo released by the California Department of Corrections, death row inmate Michael Morales of Stockton, Calif., is seen in 2007. On Tuesday, June 30, 2009, a big step toward resuming executions will occur when p...

Phil Spector

2009-06-23T19:20:16Z

This Friday, June 5, 2009 photo released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows music producer Phil Spector in prison in Kern County, Calif. On Monday, June 23, 2009,...

Rape Case

2009-06-17T03:17:58Z

This April 5, 2003 photo obtained from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows David Harold Earls. Two state lawmakers are questioning a plea agreement that will allow Earls to serve only one year in jail on a conviction for raping a 4-year-old girl. Nineteen of the 20 years of a sentence against 64-year-old Earls were suspen...

CORRECTION Arizona Outdoor Cages

2009-06-15T12:24:24Z

FILE - This undated file photo released by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Marcia Powell. _ A prostitute doing time behind bars, Powell was temporarily moved one day last month to an outdoor holding pen with nothing but a chain-link-fence roof to shield her from the searing desert sun. After less than four hours, Powell, 48, colla...

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