Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dip ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

THE HAGUE - Following a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Philippines arrested former President ...

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

It took years of effort, but one new bill that passed the senate on Thursday will head to Governor Kelly Armstrong’s desk.

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