The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal appeals. By Devlin Barrett and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Devlin Barrett ...

The 2022 death of Amy Eskridge, a Huntsville, Alabama–based researcher, has now resurfaced online as the 11th case in a growing list of scientists who have died or disappeared under unusual ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it is continuing to clear the way for expediting federal death-penalty cases, including by expanding the manners of execution to include death by firing squad.

The death of U.S. Rep. David Scott will trigger a special election for the remainder of his term, abruptly transforming what had already been a generational challenge to a longtime incumbent into a ...

NEW YORK — Of all of the arguments against the death penalty, the strongest is that even one conviction of an innocent person is both irreversible and ethically untenable. “The Fear of 13,” Lindsey ...

Tessa Thompson also stars in David Cromer’s production of the Lindsey Ferrentino play about the life and legal travails of an unjustly convicted man, based on a 2015 documentary. By David Rooney Chief ...

CARLISLE, N.Y. (WNYT)- State police said a Carlisle man was charged after investigators found his 89-year-old mother dead in a shed on the family property. According to New York State Police (NYSP) of ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Two inmates in custody of the Harris County Jail have died in recent days after the Harris County Sheriff's Office said they had medical emergencies. Now, some local ...

HOUSTON – A 10-year-old boy is facing a murder charge after a 13-year-old girl was stabbed to death in February, according to the Houston Police Department. The juvenile’s name or photo have not been ...

POMONA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Pomona family is mourning the loss of a 13-year-old boy who was struck by a car and killed while he was riding an electric scooter to a friend's house after school on Friday ...

James Hitchcock was 20 years old and fresh out of an Arkansas prison in 1976 when he moved in with his brother’s family in a small home in Winter Garden. Two weeks later, he went to a local bar to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 10-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl in northwest Houston, according to police. Now her mother is ...