Among the last actions by former President Joe Biden before leaving the Oval Office was commuting the death sentences of 37 convicted murderers. Hours after President Trump took over, he ordered the ...

A Texas judge has rescheduled the execution of a death row inmate who won a rare stay of execution last year as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection. Judge Austin Reeve ...

COLUMBIA — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Oct. 14 to review the death sentence of Stephen Bryant, which could lead to a November execution for the South Carolina inmate who admitted to killing three ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — A north Florida judge has issued a restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills after the central Florida Republican was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday morning prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration ...

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford's petition to halt his scheduled execution. Crawford's execution ...

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A former midshipman who allegedly threatened the U.S. Naval Academy last month alleged he would carry out a "mass execution" of his peers, federal prosecutors revealed in court documents obtained by ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is calling on Governor Andy Beshear to approve the state's first execution in nearly 20 years. In 1992, Ralph Baze gunned down ...