Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

Just months before his scheduled execution in 2022, the state's request was denied to transfer John Hanson, who murdered a ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31 by lethal injection is requesting a delay until more information is gathered about the drug that will kill him.

No charges filed in custody death of David Batts, with meningitis listed as the cause, not police confrontation.

A man was arrested Thursday in a Jan. 13 hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian in Peoria. Demoriel L. Sims, 36, was ...

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