The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people ...

President Trump and Stephen Miller commented that the Administration is "looking" at whether the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, is the oldest prisoner on Mississippi's death row and its longest-serving at 48 years.

The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he ...

Nearly three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for the murders of their parents, a ...

A judge resentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez to a term of 50 years to life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, ...

Legal experts' weighed in following the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez after a California judge ruled that the ...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took aim at the Trump administration in an Iowa town hall and discussed the ...

President Donald Trump announced during remarks at a business forum in Saudi Arabia that he was ordering an end to sanctions on Syria.

As a young graduate law student in the United States, over 18 years ago now, among the most consequential classes I took was ...