Capital punishment will be sought only in “exceedingly rare cases” after detailed review and consultation with crime victims.

President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S. is vast in scope and ...

Adel Ramos admitted killing police rookie Tara O’Sullivan in a 2019 ambush, but a prior jury deadlocked on his sentence.

Two violent deaths at a state prison near Stockton have brought attention to conjugal visits, a practice many states have ...

UFC fighters are urging President Trump to step in and pardon former UFC heavyweight Cain Velasquez. On Monday, Velasquez was ...

The daughter of a couple who were allegedly mistakenly murdered by order of former Olympian Ryan Wedding has spoken out more than a year after the incident.

Thomas John Loguidice, 67, was sentenced for kidnapping an Oakridge Mall employee in 1994 to eight years to life in prison, a ...

"Effective immediately, the prior administration's extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case is rescinded," the DA's office said in a statement ...

Prison officials are investigating the death of a 62-year-old woman who died of strangulation while visiting her husband at a prison in California. Stephanie Diane Dowells, who also went by the name ...

Former UFC champ Cain Velasquez on Monday was sentenced to five years in prison, to include time served, stemming from a 2022 ...