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When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday ...

Four men are facing federal charges, accused of smuggling thousands of people into the US from Guatemala in what officials ...

Three of the defendants have been arrested, while a fourth who allegedly threatened a Border Patrol agent remains a fugitive.

Guatemalan man arrested for allegedly leading a large human smuggling ring responsible for 20,000 illegal US entries.

Before becoming the second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino used his popular podcast to spread conspiracy theories about ...

As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...

Federal prison officials transferred an inmate to Oklahoma custody so that he can be executed for a 1999 killing, following ...

The Supreme Court recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted for murdering his two minor children [Ramesh A ...

Hanson arrived in Oklahoma to face a likely execution by the state for his murder conviction. The Biden administration ...

WalletHub recently conducted a study about which U.S. states were the most sinful, and found that California, Nevada and ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.