South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

Debby White, a 1950s daughter of Hannibal, left her hometown when she was 17, but her memories of the quaint little community ...

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

Death row inmate’s next moves lie with Texas Supreme Court When a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was swept thousands of miles away, ...

The last night he was alive, he was scared to go to bed,” another inmate in the Vernon County Jail said. Dean Butterfield was found dead a few hours later. From Melinda Henneberger: ...

Three Republicans backed by Attorney General Ken Paxton are set to join the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and three ...

The losses are the first on statewide reproductive rights ballot measures anywhere in the U.S. since the Supreme Court ...

Missouri voters approved Amendment 3, ending an abortion ban imposed by Republican officials more than two years ago.

But the ban, and other restrictive laws, are not automatically repealed. Advocates now have to ask courts to overturn laws to square with the new amendment.

A ballot amendment enshrining reproductive rights in the State Constitution would void one of the strictest abortion bans in ...