WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by ...

Jones was convicted of beating Rhoda Nathan, 67, to death in her room at the Embassy Suites in Blue Ash in 1994. Jones worked ...

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey woman at an Ohio hotel nearly three decades ago.

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey ...

The order, which was issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May, paves the way for Georgia to execute Humphreys next week.

Stupidity. That depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, which heard oral argument in the case of Hamm v. Smith on ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection Dec. 11 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Nichols, 64, was pronounced dead at 10:39 a.m. He was ...

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 ...

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.

Death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith scored high enough on IQ tests to be executed, but his defense contends he is mentally ...

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...