More than 1,000 pounds of illegal narcotics, hundreds of thousands in cash and an arsenal of firearms were recovered in an investigation targeting street gangs in Los Angeles County connected to ...

BERLIN — Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's move to grant two convicted murderers, the Menendez brothers, a chance to get out of prison despite sentences of life without parole has floored a Florida ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling Thursday denying a request by the state and Department of Corrections to resume executions, which have been on hold ...

Amid Iran’s heightened, unconscionable mass scale of executions and a growing abolitionist campaign of resistance led from within the country’s prisons, Iran’s Supreme Court overturned the ...

The Connecticut man who was found dead in a Super 8 Motel in Stamford was bound with duct tape and executed, authorities said Monday. Angel Samaniego, 59, was discovered dead in the budget hotel ...

While the execution of a Texas man was temporarily put on hold this week, more than 2,000 people remain on death row across the country. The Texas case has highlighted a recent increase in ...

The subpoena eventually led to the Texas Supreme Court issuing a stay order to halt Roberson's execution Thursday night. However, Texas lawmakers also say they don't know how long Roberson could ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night, just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to die by lethal injection for the “shaken baby” death of his ...

Robert Roberson, the condemned man whose execution was halted late Thursday because of an unprecedented legal gambit by Texas lawmakers, is expected to appear in person Monday at a legislative ...

The Texas Supreme Court halted the scheduled execution of Robert Leslie Roberson III late Thursday night, an extraordinary development in one of the year’s most controversial death penalty cases.

Robert Roberson’s execution was postponed after the Texas House subpoenaed him for testimony about the questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome in his case. By J. David Goodman The case of ...