Tabler — the second person executed in Texas in a little over a week, with two more scheduled by the end of April — was ...

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

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

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

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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 ...

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 to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year.

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

After 10 underage victims, four criminal charges, and serving a 7-year prison sentence, Carlos Ayala-Morales was still allowed to walk free without registering as a sex offender.