Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten. Whitten was set to testify against Whitehead in an upcoming theft trial, ...

Police arrested five people, including the university’s director general and director of administration, in this connection, who were released later in the day ...

The Tennessee Attorney General's Office is asking the state Supreme Court to set execution dates for five people on death row ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video on TikTok purportedly shows the alleged convicts before, during and after ...

A 15-year-old boy was on a date with his girlfriend for Valentine’s Day when he was violently slain on Santana Row in San Jose, the boy’s family said. A ...

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

While Louisiana stands out as a hotbed for reversed convictions, the state hasn't disciplined a prosecutor for withholding ...

When 29-year-old Christopher Edward Debord of Germantown was convicted of robbing and killing a man, the judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...