Amid a historic $3.3 billion budget deficit, one chamber of the Maryland General Assembly spent hours on Saturday debating a bill that could enable incarcerated ...

Marion Gales was a 28-year-old handyman when Thomas, a 32-year-old women’s rights activist, was found slashed to death in her ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall.

Service dogs trained in North Carolina prisons are changing lives, not just for the people who need them, but for the inmates ...

Oklahoma law says anyone who has ever scored 76 or higher on an IQ test is competent to die for their crime. Science says otherwise.

North Carolina State Highway Patrol says three separate crashes are causing delays in the area of I-40 East/I-85 North in ...

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all ...

LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday that his office is ready to move forward with a resentencing ...

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

Brad Sigmon, who battered his ex's parents to death, said in his last statement it was wrong to take "eye for an eye".

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...