Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey reduced Charles "Sonny" Burton's sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole, marking just ...

While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he ...

Sister Helen Prejean discussed her decades of advocacy and the new graphic novel adaptation of her best-selling-novel-turned-film "Dead Man Walking." ...

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.

The entrance of the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Iberville Parish. (Rachel Mipro/Louisiana Illuminator) She did what ...

Attorneys for Alabama Death Row inmate Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, arguing he was deprived of choosing his trial defense and that the state introdu ...

Attorneys for Melvin Trotter had long argued he was intellectually disabled, but he was put to death by lethal injection for a 1986 Palmetto killing.

More than a year after the Palisades Fire, the beachside restaurant Duke's Malibu will reopen and welcome back its customers on Friday.

As numbers of incarcerated women approach one million globally, campaigners are hoping the recognition leads to action ...

Together the donors on the Philanthropy 50 list contributed a total of $22.4 billion to charity in 2025. The median gift was $105 million. The financial industry was the source of wealth for most ...

One of the most consequential trends in American politics is that Democrats are increasingly discovering what Republicans have known for decades: Voters don’t like taxes. Now the gubernatorial primary ...

James Broadnax, who was 19 when he shot and killed two Dallas County Christian music producers in 2008, has filed last minute appeals ahead of his scheduled April 30 execution for the Garland murders.