The judge dismissed murder charges against Margaret Rudin, the woman dubbed “The Black Widow” who a jury convicted of killing ...

A man who was twice sentenced to execution and twice avoided that fate died in a prison hospital over the weekend. Darryl T. Kemp, 88, died of natural causes Saturday at the California Medical ...

Clemency hearing for Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of killing 10-year-old canceled ...

Good news for the millions of drivers on American roads: gas prices are falling. The national average for a gallon of gas has ...

Death row inmate seeks stay of execution ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

A clemency petition for a Missouri man facing the death penalty for sexually assaulting and killing a child says he was a ...

The new flag was not well known, according to the “Political History of Nevada,” so in 1935 the Nevada State Flag Association ...

An inmate who was armed with a prison-made weapon refused to surrender for nearly four hours, according to the Nevada ...

Hakamada, 88, is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan's post-war history. All four previous cases also resulted in exonerations. Just a week after his acquittal, Japan's then ...

A senior Japanese public prosecutor on Wednesday bowed in apology to Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner whose conviction was quashed this year.

A senior Japanese public prosecutor on Wednesday bowed in apology to Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner whose conviction was quashed this year. The octogenarian spent 46 ...