A judge sentenced Michael Roman Black, 32, to 35 years in prison for planning the shooting of a federal prosecutor.

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman. All nine justices on the court, in a ruling issued Thursday ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Florida on Thursday evening executed Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children in 1998.

Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary ...

Authorities in Puerto Rico says that a man who tried to drive his car through floodwaters was swept away and killed as heavy rains lash the island. The incident occurred ...

Alabama death-row inmate James Osgood is facing execution Thursday for the 2010 rape and murder of his girlfriend's cousin.

James Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown. He is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The ...

The court’s ruling ordering Trump not to deport a group of Venezuelan immigrants was an unprecedented rebuke. Are they ...

JOE Ingle swore he would never watch a friend die. But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida’s death ...

there were “162 individuals held on Alabama’s death row” and, in 52.2 percent of the cases, there was Black misrepresentation on the jury. Multiples of these executions, regardless of whether the ...