After nearly three decades on death row and nine near-executions, Richard Glossip has been released on bond as he awaits a ...

We’re used to seeing police dogs out on the street alongside officers and deputies, but these days a growing number of K-9 ...

Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green said they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang ...

In a short video sent Friday to DePaul University students, the pope said, “We affirm that the dignity of the person is not lost even after very serious crimes are committed." ...

Matthew Kaufman, 45, of Lena, Illinois, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of numerous children ...

A registered sex offender in Aurora is back in court trouble after detectives say a multi-year investigation uncovered ...

Convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich left his home early Thursday morning and hopped into a car, the first leg of a trip that landed him in a federal prison in Colorado by the afternoon, the ...

Pope Leo said “the death penalty is inadmissible” and he supports anyone trying to abolish it in the U.S.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last January, prioritizing the use of the death penalty in federal cases.

Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s ...

A home in the town of Arroyo Grande on California’s Central Coast was searched Wednesday morning in connection with the 1996 ...

Her murder was the subject of the '20/20' episode, "Tracking Susana" ...