Legal counsel for an Indiana man on death row have petitioned for the state’s supreme court justices to throw out a ...

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who used their legislative powers and the courts to stop an execution last week with ...

Four Texas House lawmakers issued a point-by-point rebuttal to what they called the attorney general’s misleading ...

The district court here on Oct. 25 ordered the Japanese government to pay 550,000 yen (about $3,600) in compensation to a ...

A Bay County jury decided the fate of a convicted cop killer for the second time Friday. “We, the jury, find by a vote of 9 ...

Death penalty trials shows how protracted and personal capital murder cases become for a slain victim’s loved ones, the accused, and their families ...

Richard Poplawski, convicted of killing three Pittsburgh police officers 15 years ago, claimed in a recent court filing that ...

The case of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson has reached new levels of scrutiny as responses continue over recent ...

In a brief, state Rep. Cody Harris and other representatives said the Texas House on Criminal Jurisprudence held a "one-sided ...

Richard Moore is set to be executed via lethal injection on November for his role in the 1999 killing of a convenience store ...

The statement from Paxton "corrects falsehoods" from critics who say death row inmate Robert Roberson was unjustifiably ...