The award recognizes state Rep. Joe Moody and the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee's work in the high-profile ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

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The state of Ohio hasn’t put anyone to death since 2018, and Gov. Mike DeWine has said not to expect any executions during his term as governor, which runs through 2026. The two leading ...

After more than a decade, the Texas Democratic Party now has a new person in charge. A group of party leaders voted and selected Kendall Scudder as the new chair. He'll now have the responsibility ...

Why it’s different in the Oxford Center case. CEO, staff showed 'wanton disregard' for safety in child's hyperbaric chamber death, AG says The fringe autism therapy behind Brighton’s Oxford ...

The Texas Democratic Party’s governing board on Saturday elected Kendall Scudder to lead the party forward as its new chair after a devastating performance in November and years of electoral ...

Just after 6 p.m. on March 7, the curtain hiding South Carolina’s execution chamber jerks open ... the lethal injection gurney and ancient electric chair. Finally, its newest method of execution ...

The party is hoping a change in leadership can bring more success at the polls. Victor Davis Hanson explains why Judge Boasberg is the ‘most powerful man in America’ Passenger flight and Air ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., includes an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...