South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn't been used in ...

Attorneys for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have nodded to autism spectrum disorder ...

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

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

“For decades, Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes have flooded the United States and other countries ... which opens the door to the death penalty. The US Department of Justice ...

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

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after Pam Bondi was sworn in as attorney general in the Oval Office. Bondi is ...

“The lack of an active death penalty in the majority of states within the United States indicates that there has been an ideological shift and that the punishment now violates our contemporary ...

Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...

Alleged drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero, who spent decades in prison in Mexico for the murder of a U.S. drug ...

Luigi Mangione’s lawyer said federal prosecutors are still weighing the death penalty over the murder ... complicating his defense on New York state charges over the shooting.

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