A woman serving a life sentence for her role in a notorious Walker County kidnapping case has escaped from a work release ...

A woman serving a life sentence for her role in a notorious Walker County kidnapping case has escaped from a work release ...

Karen McPherson was serving time for the first-degree kidnapping of Jasper lawyer Carrie Lawson from her home in 1991.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted a death sentence for the first time in her tenure Friday, sparing inmate Robin Dion "Rocky" Myers. The Alabama Supreme Court had cleared the way for Myers to ...

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s execution protocol is a public record, in a case that could decide ...

A court battle is gearing up over whether Louisiana’s nitrogen gas execution protocol is a public record as the federal ...

Yankees right-hander Luis Gil will start the season on the injured list because of a high-grade lat strain in his pitching ...

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In Illinois, a jury found landlord Joseph Czuba guilty of murder and hate crimes for killing 6-year-old Palestinian American ...

Bruce Mendenhall, also known as the “Truck Stop Serial Killer” was sentenced to an additional 65 years in prison for the July ...

Kamal Ahmed Majumder, former state minister for industries of the ousted Awami League regime, told a court yesterday that he would no longer engage in politics and that he had renounced his Awami ...