Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

Iran has been thrust into the spotlight, and in Ireland, a small diasporic community has watched on through the headlines, ...

More than 100 new laws will take effect on Tuesday. The laws will address several highly debated topics in the state ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

The alleged gunman in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings appeared in federal court Friday, June 27. Vance Boelter is accused of ...

Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Teresa Youngblut is alleged to have taken part in a shooting in which a US border agent was killed in Vermont.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man who ambushed and murdered Sacramento Police Department Officer Tara O'Sullivan was sentenced to the death penalty Friday. Adel Ramos opened fire at O'Sullivan on June 19, ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...

The Indiana Attorney General’s Office requested an execution date on Friday for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward, the Spencer ...

A former prosecutor said Kilmar Abrego Garcia could face death penalty-eligible charges stemming from a 2021 incident, if ...

Japan yesterday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the ...