LAMAR, S.C. -- A deputy trying to arrest a suspect in a South Carolina home was ambushed, shot and killed early Tuesday while ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

If you’ve been following Alabama news for a few years, you remember the poop train, a controversy in Central Alabama that ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

Also, violence has frequently erupted near aid sites in Gaza. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

If you listen closely, you may be able to hear the GOP grumbling over the Senate bill. In today’s issue: Senate referee guts ...

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...