A former Syrian prison chief has been convicted in a landmark torture trial in Los Angeles.

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County kidnapping and murder of Denise Amber Lee. King was pronounced dead at 6:13 ...

An inmate who pleaded guilty in a murder plot took the witness stand Monday in the federal trial focused on staged 18-wheeler ...

Cedric Ricks was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her 8-year-old ...

Standing by for the live shot after wind downed trees at CSU.

**Giveaway is OVER** ...

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a ...

Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton had spent more than 30 years on Alabama's Death Row for the 1991 murder in which he wasn't the triggerman.

A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago ...

A Texas man has been executed for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...