The increase in executions is largely being driven by four states — Florida, Texas, Alabama and South Carolina — that have ...

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count ...

A Texas bishop showed Pope Leo XIV a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and their loved ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson back to his trial court, granting a stay of execution to a man who claims ...

He named himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, and was known as “The Pope of the Workers,” making it his mission to confront the ruthless laissez-faire economics ...

Tuesday evening the state of Missouri is set to carry out its first scheduled execution of 2025. Opponents say evidence in ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Lehigh County and Northampton County law enforcement officials pursued the death penalty in recent years although the state ...

Advocates of Charles Crawford call for Mississippi to stop plans to execute the 59-year-old inmate on death row.

One of two men charged with the shooting death of an off-duty Monterey Park police officer during what authorities called a botched daytime robbery attempt in a parking lot in Downey pleaded no ...