George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best ...

George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal ...

It's unclear whether federal law was even broken when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on a New York street.

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

For prisoners, the transfers off a dismantled death row have brought a broad variety of experiences and emotions.

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...

NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...

Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, is set to be executed by means of lethal injection on May 1 in Florida after being convicted of the ...