Gov. Glenn Youngkin has commuted the sentence of a White Fairfax County cop convicted in the shooting death of an unarmed ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. sits in a visitor’s room at Lawrence ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough ...

A half dozen three- and fouryear- olds wave “adios!” to their moms and younger siblings, then pile into the little bus, “el ...

Two inmates at Sing Sing died amidst a corrections officer strike over work conditions and solitary confinement use. The ...

Alabama's Attorney General and Governor were not on the same page Friday when it came to the handling of a death row inmate's impending execution.

Just days after Alabama Supreme Court Justices authorized his execution, a Decatur capital murder convict had his death ...

Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. hadn't killed anyone when he was put away at age 20 as an accomplice to a 1997 murder. He got a life sentence without possibility of parole. That wouldn't happen today.

Cousins of Erik and Lyle Menendez spoke out to criticize the Los Angeles district attorney’s recent decision to oppose a new ...

The men, 35-year-old Franklyn Dominguez and 67-year-old Anthony Douglas, were found unresponsive in their cells hours apart Tuesday night, according to a representative for the Department of ...

Clemency from California's governor may be the last hope for convicted killers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who will attend a ...