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.

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 ...

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.

The Trump administration had set a Tuesday deadline for the Justice Department to identify FBI agents involved in both ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...