Melinda Lee Mercer showed extraordinary determination in the final moments of her life, chewing through two of the four ...

The appellate court, therefore, agreed with the findings of the trial court that the police officer indeed had malice aforethought when he caused the death of the deceased. The trial court sentenced ...

Pretrial hearings have been on-again, off-again for so long that some family members of the nearly 3,000 victims now question whether justice is attainable.

A California state prison inmate and four-time convicted murderer has been formally charged with the strangulation murder of ...

On Aug. 15, 1995, Officer Bob Martin was attempting to make a traffic stop when he was shot and killed on Beeline Highway, a few miles north of Shea Boulevard.

Attorneys for a defendant facing the death penalty have intervened in the petition attempting to restrict Washington County’s ...

Tristan Tan is given a life sentence after the Cabinet considered the specific facts and circumstances of the case, according ...

The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of ...

Kayle Bates, who's from West Palm Beach, is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 19 for the murder of Janet Renee White.

A judge last month stayed the Aug. 21 execution of David Lee Roberts until a mental evaluation could be conducted to see if Roberts is competent to be executed. The Alabama Department of Corrections ...

Court documents have revealed that the Missouri woman who fatally shot her husband could receive the death penalty.

After Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 murders of four Idaho students, investigators described ...