WASHINGTON, DC – When President Donald Trump became the 47th president in January, he started a new legal battle over ...

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

In a plea agreement filed in late January, Benjamin Shoemaker agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy against rights as well as two counts of deprivation of rights.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the decision banning ...

Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

A new bill in Oklahoma seeks to impose harsher penalties on individuals who shoot into homes or businesses, aiming to enhance community safety.

At the end of 2012, he was sent to a prerelease program in Boston, where he had to find a job with no cellphone and no ...

Steve Bannon admitted Tuesday to defrauding New Yorkers who donated to his “We Build the Wall” online fundraiser — but will serve no prison time as part of the plea deal.

Nicole Lynn Johnson admitted Feb. 4 to causing 51-year-old Ricky Albers’ death with criminal negligence while armed with a ...