In North Carolina, Ernest D. Pheasant Sr. was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing his wife, Marie ...

Over the years, law enforcement errors have allowed convicts and pre-trial detainees to walk free, with two such incidents happening in Clayton County in the past three years.

Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South ...

Republican lawmakers are enacting two border security measures that some Democrats contend amount to "conscripting'' local ...

Kathan Guzman was convicted last year of murdering 19-year-old Dalia Grayson and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.