On March 4, 2005, homemaking guru Martha Stewart returned home after serving five months in a federal prison for conspiracy, ...

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 ...

Louisiana's nitrogen gas execution protocol hasn't been released to the public. "It relates to the most solemn … government ...

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

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

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 2007 murder of Carma Purpura ...