Court records show that a death warrant was signed this week for Jessie Hoffman, who was convicted in 1996 for raping and killing a woman in a rural part of St. Tammany.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

Embattled criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Gary Guymon has filed a petition to transfer his law license to ...

A fraudster who has run scams against Australians for more than two decades has resurfaced at the centre of a dispute over patents potentially worth more than $21 billion.

Mueller, a former public defender, eventually took the case and mostly won at trial. A jury acquitted Thompson of the felony ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

District Attorney Jason Schmidt told jurors the attack was swift and sudden. He said Matar bounded up a staircase to the ...

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at gunpoint, and killing her.

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.