A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

James Hilliard died just days after his lawyer filed a notice of claim against Yonkers and an upstate psychiatric hospital.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.

Surveillance footage shows the man striking the victim in the chest with what appears to be a knife, according to court ...

NYPD brass and hundreds of family members gathered in the lobby of 1 Police Plaza, where plaques were ceremoniously unveiled, ...

Luis Jose-Duarte was charged with manslaughter for his role in the stabbing of John Sheldon on Friday. The men got into an ...

After guards beat Robert Brooks to death in December, The Marshall Project found dozens more allegations of abuse in medical ...

A reputed member of the 9 Trey Bloods gang was cut loose by New York State officials — and is now part of a new gang roundup, ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Duarte, 46, was just taken into custody for the deadly stabbing of 38-year-old John Sheldon at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers Street station.

All 10 former Marcy Correctional Facility Officers have received additional time to accept or deny their plea in Oneida ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...