Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

Although the government labeled him an active participant in a criminal scheme, his family insisted that he was an unwitting ...

Aaron Brian Gunches' execution would mark a resumption of Arizona's use of the death penalty after a two-year pause while it ...

One of Roy Cooper’s final acts as governor was to commute the sentences of 15 death row inmates. They will remain in prison ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The Huntsville Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened on Monday afternoon. Officials say officers responded to the area of Brookside Drive for a possible ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

First responders in the Tennessee Valley are tasked with helping people every day. But on Thursday, a group of them took a pause to help out Santa by giving gifts to children in Huntsville.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

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