Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Florida, which has made the death penalty a priority, must be more transparent about how it's killing death row inmates.

Senate lawmakers kicked off budget hearings in Harrisburg on Tuesday, with Republicans questioning the acting commissioner of ...

As Melvin Trotter faces execution today for a 1986 killing in Florida, his attorneys argue his intellectual disability has ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

A 32-year-old man on Tuesday was charged with murder in the shooting of his ex-girlfriend's mother and brother at their Pleasanton home. Allen Swadley was also charged with special-circumstance ...

A 16-year-old girl charged with last weekend’s shooting death of another Rock Hill teen will stay in juvenile detention for ...

Five teenage suspects have been arrested on murder and robbery charges after a man was shot in his southeast Portland home ...

Melvin Trotter, convicted of a 1986 murder, faces execution in Florida today after the Supreme Court denied his appeals.

Thirty-five-year-old Muhammad Murphy had been charged in January with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with ...

The Oklahoma City Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a suspect sought in connection with the deadly January shooting of a 19-year-old man.

Julius Milner is charged with the murder of three men in Unionville early Sunday morning. He was set to graduate from an ...