It didn't take long for the judge to deny Michael Bell any reprieve from his July 15 execution or validity to new claims three decades later.

Catholic organizations had lobbied Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s ...

Two men were sentenced Wednesday to lifelong terms in prison in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy outside an ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing a prominent Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another could face something that ...

George Reeves' death was ruled a suicide in 1959, but the end of his life remains controversial due to a lack of evidence ...

When George Ryan, a small-town pharmacist turned Illinois governor, stood before the world in 2000 to halt his state’s death penalty, he didn’t just pause executions — he ignited a global ...

Two former Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees have been sentenced after an inmate’s medical needs were ignored in a federal prison in Prince George County, resulting in his death.

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best known for declaring a state moratorium on the death penalty in ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan gets a hug from Costella Cannon, of Jackson, Tennessee, before a congressional hearing on the death penalty system held at the Dirksen Federal Building.

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who put a moratorium on executions in 2000 and later commuted the death sentences of more than 160 inmates before leaving office, died on May 2. He was 91.