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

A judge has dismissed the possibility of the death penalty against Billy Wagner in the Pike County massacre trial.

They were led by George Cheever.[14] Finally, in 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state), mostly because it had no long tradition ...

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

Nearly 26 years after he and an accomplice killed two people as part of a crime spree, 61-year-old George John Hanson was executed Thursday morning. Hanson died by lethal injection at the Oklahoma ...

George John Hanson was executed in McAlester, Oklahoma Thursday morning, following his recent transfer to the state by the ...

A small group gathered outside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in Thursday, June 12, during the execution of George John Hanson, 61. The group offered up prayers and support for Hanson, his family and ...

Two Columbia SC men have been sentenced to federal prison for attacking and injuring police officers during a protest in 2020 ...

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a man arrested for murder in January 2023 has been given a life sentence ...

At the time of her death, she was facing more than 40 libel ... Two other men, George Degiorgio and Adrian Agius, were ...