The president Thursday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro to use federal law to pursue capital punishment cases in the city. President Donald Trump instructed ...

MARTINEZ — Contra Costa prosecutors have charged a local resident who allegedly used a baseball bat to beat his ex-boyfriend to death, then called police to report he’d failed to recognize an ...

In a new interview with The New York Times, Hayley Williams confirms that the “racist country singer” referenced in her track, “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” is Morgan Wallen. In 2021, Morgan ...

Lyndsey Collins-Praino receives funding from the National Health and Medical Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, the Australian Research Council and various philanthropic organisations. In ...

After more than 20 years, a new review of the death of famed journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson is underway. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is conducting a case review into Thompson's 2005 ...

Tennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on the state's death row. Florida has executed two women in its history: Serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2002 and 'Black ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized supporters of the death penalty Tuesday, saying they are “not really pro-life.” “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion’ but says, ‘I’m in favor of the death penalty,’ is not ...

WOODFORD COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A Kentucky man convicted of stabbing a six-year-old boy to death is out of prison. Records with the Kentucky Department of Corrections list Ronald Exantus as out of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, faces a September 2026 execution date. The Tennessee Supreme Court set Pike's Sept. 30, 2026, date on Tuesday. It also ...

As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of execution. Victor Tony Jones was sentenced to death in ...