Harsher criminal penalties for many different offenses become law Monday. So does a new push to restart the death penalty in ...

President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, calling them ...

In Florida, the person who carries out executions isn’t a prison employee but an anonymous private citizen who is paid a flat ...

Texas leads the nation in executions, with nearly 600 since 1976. Huntsville's historic prison carries out these sentences, ...

Today, Richard Randolph is 63 years old and has been on death row for nearly 37 years. He converted to Islam decades ago and ...

Ohio utility regulators have ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy to pay over $250 million in fines, restitution and refunds for ...

A death row inmate who was convicted of fatally shooting a U.S. airman and his girlfriend and later confessed to three other killings is now scheduled to die by lethal injection next month in Florida, ...

Justin and Amber Hicks were shot to death in their home, their son left alone with their bodies for 12-hours. Dwain Hall was arrested this week in connection with the October killing of Sonia Exelby, ...

Washington Commanders defensive tackle Daron Payne was suspended for one game without pay by the NFL on Monday for hitting Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown during the teams’ game the night ...

LP contributor Diane Walker, like many people who grew up in Cambridge City, Indiana, in the 1970s, still wonders at the ...

Prisoners inside a sweltering South Florida prison were subjected to dangerously high temperatures this summer—peaking at a "real feel" of 119 degrees in one area—according to a recent expert report ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1979 killing a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year. Bryan ...