Hours before the new attorney general was sworn in, the department’s current No. 2 official, Emil Bove, escalated his growing ...

Accused of trying to drown a Black teen in Chatham's Goose Pond, John Sheeran, 15, got probation and community service in a ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

"The defendants have not so much as alleged that the plaintiffs in this particular suit present any threat to the female ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.

Lisel Petis, resident senior fellow for criminal justice and civil liberties at the conservative public policy think tank R Street Institute, said recidivism is reduced when court cases are quickly ...

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will issue several major directives on her first day leading the Justice Department, including orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system; make ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm anyone.

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from moving transgender women to men's prisons and ending their gender-affirming care. In a broad ruling ...

About 40 people rallied Tuesday in the Capitol Annex, advocating for broader voter rights restoration in Kentucky.