Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

The Senate will vote on a Republican-backed amendment to the state constitution that would eliminate every person’s right to bail for dozens of criminal charges. Their effort upends the presumption of ...

The Treviño Morales, leaders of Los Zetas, pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges as they potentially face the death ...

Here is how a proposed law change could mean jailed Brits in Bali could avoid being executed as Indonesian lawmakers are ...

The Maryland Senate’s judicial proceedings committee held hearings for the Ny’Kala Strawder Act and the PACE Act on Tuesday.

Under a bill headed to the Idaho House, adults who sexually abuse children age 12 and younger in Idaho could be sentenced to ...

House of Reps has said that a bill to amend Nigeria’s Penal and Criminal Codes, aiming to abolish or reduce the use of the ...

The International Criminal Court has had former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on a warrant containing charges ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest ... and the U.S. military use the death penalty. Three states — California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania — also allow capital punishment ...

Detectives with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigative Section arrested Danny Lee Sanders Jr., 43, of ...

A probable cause affidavit asserts that the infant, 17-month-old Hannah Yonko, could be seen on video falling to the ground ...