If you listen closely, you may be able to hear the GOP grumbling over the Senate bill. In today’s issue: Senate referee guts ...

The U.S. economy shrank at a faster pace in the beginning of the year than originally reported, as new economic data showed a ...

A week after firing the agency’s executive director, the Texas Funeral Service Commission has called a July 3 meeting in ...

Michael Bell's appeal comes after a hearing in which two witnesses from his 1995 trial were expected to say their testimony ...

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate.Trevor Gocan, 57, punched ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case.

The death penalty is more than appropriate in the gruesome murder of New River's 'Pastor Bill,' especially when the confessed ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom schem ...

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a ...

Ruben Gutierrez's lawyers say new evidence tests would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...