The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let Alabama execute convicted murderer Joseph Smith, whose IQ scores were ...

Good faith and fair dealing—adherence to what we might call “norms”—is essential to the functioning of American government.

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ ...

Edwin Langston didn’t fire the bullet that killed Arretta Lou Ingrham, but he has spent the last 49 years in jail for her ...

A man illegally sentenced to 15 years in prison on a drug conviction is set to walk free after Mississippi's governor granted ...

The Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with a deadly 2024 shooting at an Andrews ...

A planned Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, which could be adopted as soon as 2029, has the potential to enhance protections for civilians at risk globally.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

Lai, 78, the millionaire founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper and one of the most prominent critics of China's increasingly tight controls under President Xi Jinping, has pleaded not ...

Prosecutors must return evidence seized from a key figure in the dismissed criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey, but the U.S. Department of Justice can seek a new warrant for the ...