Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...

A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a series of violent crimes against homeless people two years ago in Sacramento County, including the murders of a woman found shot to death in ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government. His ...

Family members of four victims killed in the Monterey Park mass shooting two years ago, as well as one survivor, have filed ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...