States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the House, announced Thursday after 40 years in Congress that she will not seek reelection. She announced it on X.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a series of important cases during its current nine-month term involving issues such as ...

Members of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board decided in a 3-2 vote on Wednesday to recommend that the governor grant ...

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death in 2013 after customs officers found cocaine worth an estimated US$2.14 million hidden in her suitcase.

Frail Lindsay Sandiford will begin the 8,000-mile journey home today after 13 years on death row in Bali after Prime Minister ...

The death rate in more than 500 top U.S. jails has risen more than 8% since the last official data was released in 2016, a ...

Nashville mayor calls for independent review at Metro's 911 Call Center after learning from current dispatcher that HR ...

Two British drug convicts including a grandmother on death row flew home early on Friday, as part of a deal to return them on ...

Two British drug convicts including a grandmother on death row left a Bali jail on Thursday, as part of a deal to send them ...

Judges at the International Criminal Court have confirmed war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against Ugandan ...

An immigrant who was arrested after a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped him dodge federal agents has been sentenced to time ...