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According to Thulare, the family needed support and described the man as troublesome when he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

A victim says she was never notified by the Orleans district attorney about a perpetrator's sentence reduction.

For a long time, that has been the case with the role of race in America’s death penalty system. It is by now well documented ...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate, led by Sen. Marcia Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a bill to increase protections for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

The country’s prison facilities, which operate at 375 percent overcapacity, are the third worst in the world after the Democratic Republic of Congo (600 percent) and Haiti (400 percent).

The drama — which recalls the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate fame — represents the most high-profile effort yet by ...

The jury announced its verdict on Nov. 8 following a four-day trial, prosecutors said. Caleb Pickens, 25, was found guilty of ...

The crime package tackles issues like auto theft penalties, fentanyl trafficking sentences, and making shooting threats a ...

President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into ...

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A Florida man convicted of murdering a husband and wife during a fishing trip at a remote farm while the couple’s toddler looked on is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening in the ...