The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.

CAMERON, Texas (KWTX) - A former teacher at Rockdale High School who had a child with a 17-year-old student was placed on ...

Records show an arrested Lubbock State Supported Living Center employee is accused of breaking the jaw of a 36-year-old ...

In 2008 he called then-state Sen. John Whitmire multiple times, prompting a massive prison lockdown and search for contraband ...

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

Successful petitions to receive compassionate early release from federal prisons due to health issues are rare. They are even ...

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A Mexican nationally living in Texas illegally was sentenced to life in federal prison on Thursday for his criminal role as leader of a drug trafficking organization ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently sent a letter asking for IRS agents to be deputized for immigration enforcement as well. They would dig in to human trafficking networks, ...

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler by lethal injection after he was found guilty of the murders of two people ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put ...