States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely.

WASHINGTON-- A day after the justices considered overturning a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the Supreme Court took up a 2001 decision that ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

Some of the country’s most prestigious colleges are enrolling record numbers of low-income students — a growing admissions ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than ...

A federal judge in Georgia has declined to halt an execution scheduled for next week. An attorney for Stacey Humphreys argued ...

A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday ...

Prosecutors dismissed accomplice to capital murder charges against two teens accused of involvement in the shooting death of ...

Cole County judge Christopher Limbaught says state lawmakers can redraw congressional district boundaries without waiting for ...