Despite having committed a chilling crime, Gregory Ulas Powell might well have been granted parole were it not for a former Los Angeles police officer who became a best-selling author.
Clarified: A 54-year-old man with a low IQ who reportedly couldn’t handle money and sucked his thumb was put to death Tuesday in Texas for the 1992 murder of a…
A plea bargain has reportedly been reached concerning the suspect in the 2011 murder of Arizona’s chief federal district court judge and five others in a shopping-mall shooting spree that…
An inmate in Oregon who was sentenced to death after his second murder conviction and wants to be executed has just won a round in an unusual court battle.
A visibly agitated Virginia man facing a capital triple homicide case was unrestrained Wednesday at a competency hearing, as defense counsel requested.
An impasse between the Army psychiatrist facing capital charges in a fatal 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and the military judge who will preside over his court-martial has…
A Georgia death-row inmate whose case attracted national attention because of his mental disability claim has gotten a last-minute execution reprieve on a different ground.
A Michigan prosecutor says her office won’t charge a prisoner accused of killing a fellow inmate because he is already serving a sentence of life without parole and can’t be…
North Carolina lawmakers have overridden a gubernatorial veto and rewritten a law that had allowed death-row inmates to use racial-bias statistics to get a reduced sentence of life without parole.
Citing a Dorothy Parker profile of Ernest Hemingway published in the New Yorker, a federal judge in Tampa has denied a Florida lawyer’s request to take a day off during…
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