Judges dismissed others for failing to meet the malicious-and-sadistic standard, or due to doctrines that protect law enforcement officials like prison guards. Judges rarely questioned the ...

Highlands County Sheriff's Office via AP Nearly six years after murdering five women in Florida, a former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death. On Monday, Dec. 16, Zephen Xaver ...

When a busload of angry corrections officers stomped inmates one morning at Mid-State Correctional Facility, they made it clear that no word of the violence was to escape the prison walls.

A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a Florida bank almost six years ago was sentenced to death on Monday as his judge called the slayings calculated, heinous and cruel.

A guard, William Quinn, had been killed. Negotiations had ended. The men on the D yard waited for the inevitable. Four days earlier, on September 9, 1971, 1,281 prisoners had wrested control of Attica ...

Former Prison Guard Trainee Is Sentenced to Death for Killing 5 Women at a Florida Bank A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a Florida bank almost six years ago was ...

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentence of an inmate who murdered a prison guard the day after the 30th anniversary of the horrific act. Inmate Anthony Battle struck Correctional Officer D ...

HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. — A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a Florida bank almost six years ago was sentenced to death on Monday as his judge called the slayings ...