SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier, 52, was convicted of the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. Frazier raped and shot her ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.

Demetrius Frazier apologized to the loved ones of one of the women he murdered and uttered two final words before he was ...

Calhoun County saw a significant decrease in overdose deaths in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to data ...

Allegations about the final hours of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreaus’ lives have been revealed in a new court filing. In papers ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery, clearing the way for him to become ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church during a robbery was facing execution ...