Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set an Aug. 21 execution date for David Lee Roberts ...

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down four more rulings Thursday, including a 6-3 decision solidifying states’ right to block abortion services from receiving Medicaid funding.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

When a person is placed on Death Row, usually, people think their final moments are bleak - but one person’s last hours have ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Mississippi carried out the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who had spent nearly five ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate. Trevor Gocan, 57, punched and kicked James “Jim” O’Neill, 74, outside their housing estate in Covent ...

On June 24, death row inmate Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke, ...

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali started the trial of an Argentine woman and a British man accused of ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...