When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a ...

Yavapai County attorney pursues death penalty cases despite victims' families opposing and defendants facing decades-long ...

Women working at Mecca Sports Bar in Denver’s Athmar Park neighborhood routinely offered customers in and outside of the bar ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

Jarvis Jay Masters, the 63-year-old death row author and Oprah Book Club selection, appeals his case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

According to Associated Press, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal ...

The Idaho Department of Correction announced that the death row inmate died of natural causes at a local hospital.

A key Mississippi lawmaker has passed a major hurdle on a bill that calls for tougher oversight of deaths inside the state’s ...

Oklahoma is moving forward with its first planned execution of 2026 on Thursday, as the state is set to put Kendrick Simpson ...

Florida has executed Ronald Heath, who became a murderer when he was 16 and killed two other men when he was released from ...

In Florida, Ronald Heath was executed on the recommendation of a nonunanimous jury. Kendrick Simpson, a survivor of Hurricane Katrina and victim of poverty and childhood abuse, was put to death in ...