If you're trying to understand the Kansas City Chiefs' Sunday Night Football loss to the Green Bay Packers, it's easy to pull out some mitigating factors. The defense suffered multiple injuries. The ...

“America you lost. I won!” shouted Zacarias Moussaoui after an Alexandria, Va., jury rejected the death penalty for his admitted role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 ...

During a criminal trial in the United States, an impartial jury is selected to determine the innocence or guilt of the defendant; however, it is not within their power to determine how to punish the ...

With just over a month to go until Donald Trump’s scheduled July 11 sentencing hearing, a legal expert told Salon the former president’s lack of remorse and findings of contempt could be grounds for a ...

On a March evening last year, death penalty lawyers, scholars and trained investigators gathered in an Atlanta hotel room to celebrate Wiggins v. Smith. The 20-year-old Supreme Court decision declared ...