More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Wallace "Gator" Bradley says Mark Maxson signed a 2013 contract for help in his quest for freedom. Now Bradley is in court trying to get a share of Maxson's legal settlement stemming from the nearly ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

A Texas inmate who strangled and suffocated a pastor inside his own church years ago revealed at the brink of his execution that he had ‘found peace’ and was ‘ready to go home.’ Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

President Trump’s Justice Department sued the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and local officials Thursday over laws ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

Sunday marked 17 years since a shooting at Lane Bryant that left five women dead rocked south suburban Tinley Park in ...

This is Nebraska’s first trip to the West Coast in the new Big Ten. First up is Oregon on Sunday. "Now we gonna go on the road and take this ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the ...