An incarcerated Texas man claiming to be the father of the late University of Utah football player Ty-Coreous (Ty) Jordan has ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

1) The death penalty will increase – not decrease – terrorist attacks.

Tennessee is preparing to execute Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen ...

A group calling itself “Indivisible the 915” held a silent protest on Saturday, Dec. 13 to highlight what they and others are ...

When Wade Hayslip was 13 years old, a youth pastor pulled him aside and told him he needed to get out of his mother’s house. “Move in with your Wade Hayslip reflects on the pending execution of Chuck ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their ...

Mandy Seamark, whose husband Gary Dunmore, 57, was murdered in 2023 in a brutal double slaying speaks for the first time ...

Nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured in crashes on California's roads over the past two decades. But CalMatters reports state lawmakers have done little to ...