The papal conclave in the modern era has resulted in a number of progressive popes playing various roles in shaping political ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for ...

The Indiana State Parole Board will hold a clemency hearing on Monday for a man convicted of killing a Beech Grove police ...

The murder of a police officer in the line of duty in the Greater Cincinnati region is a relatively rare occurrence. However, ...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

Amid a looming administration showdown with the Supreme Court over the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, Americans should remember that litigation on ...

Luigi Mangione's lead defense attorney wants at least two counts against him in an indictment issued in New York thrown out.

Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers urged a judge Thursday to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO ...

Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter are facing a possible death sentence for the 2004 Xbox murders in which six people were beaten to death.

The deputy was outside his vehicle helping manage traffic at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Burnet Woods Drive when a car drove into the intersection and struck the deputy, said Lt.

Lawrence Russell Brewer was the last death row inmate in Texas that was allowed to choose what his final meal was before his ...