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A federal judge is greenlighting the execution of Richard Jordan, limiting options to avoid execution by the death row inmate ...

Powerful political allies get a pass, while dissenters are crushed with massive fines. This isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Public Safety Commissioner Tim Tipton are defendants in the federal lawsuit targeting a ...

Death row prisoner Byron Black is asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to step in and delay his scheduled Aug. 5 execution.

Order requires that officials monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. If heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular ...

The clock is ticking for embattled St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery: If he doesn’t resign by noon tomorrow, Attorney ...

But the 8th Amendment doesn’t apply to Indiana, or any other state. The Supreme Court said in 1833 that the Bill of Rights only protects against abuses by the federal government — not by ...

Byron Black, a 68-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has filed a petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court to halt his ...

The ACLU has released a report finding that the death penalty process systematically excludes Black Americans, women, and religious individuals from the jury box, raising constitutional concerns and ...