The ACLU of Florida has condemned the Florida Supreme Court's decision to uphold a non-unanimous jury standard for imposing ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a man twice-condemned, dismissing his constitutional ...

A Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death to avoid capture has been sentenced to more than 11 years in U.S.

Bessy Jiminez Mejia and 24-year-old Liam Conaway were sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review the death sentence of Terry Pitchford in a case that could clarify how rigorously courts ...

(WSPA) – The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled against a man convicted of killing his wife in the parking lot of the Inman Police Department. In a lengthy ruling issued Wednesday, the court upheld ...

21 YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE WORST DOMESTIC MURDERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA HISTORY HIT THE CITY OF DELTONA. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSIDE A HOME IN WHAT’S NOW REFERRED TO BY MANY AS THE X BOX MURDERS. FOUR ...

Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body-worn camera videos were each sentenced Friday to ...

ASSAULT AND WEAPONS CHARGES. AN OMAHA TEEN WILL SPEND 50 TO 70 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR HIS ROLE IN THE KILLING OF AN UBER DRIVER, 18 YEAR-OLD DESHAWN TITTSWORTH HUNT WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED WITH MURDER ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...