North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

Maria DeTommaso, 74, has lived in the railroad flat on the bottom floor of a Long Island City row house since at least 2002, ...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 inmates seeks to prevent them from being transferred to a notorious federal supermax prison ...

In a last-minute legal maneuver, attorneys for death row inmate Jeffrey Hutchinson filed a motion Wednesday with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking a stay of his scheduled execution. Hutchinson, who ...

When a military judge threw out a defendant’s confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons. The ...

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie's clemency hearings are set for the coming weeks as his legal team fights to delay ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

A legislative committee on Tuesday is scheduled to debate a bill that would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between three options for their execution: lethal injection, ...

The festival will bring mariachi music, food and entertainment to Long Beach residents on Saturday, May 3, at Veterans Park.

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate. Willie Cory Godbolt had ...

Breaking news.  Godden Matanga recounts his 21-year journey from death row to freedom. – Picture: Esther Mushove Trust Freddy, Features Correspondent THE words, “Hear, hear, hear! May the court keep ...