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The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

A Macon judge dismissed a murder case against two men who were on trial after Macon prosecutors raised concern that not enough grand jurors were involved in the men’s indictment. Judge Jeffery Monroe ...

A Texas man admitted to murdering his coworker in her cubicle because she was "not paying any attention" to him and he was ...

A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying ... but hours before he was to receive a lethal injection, Travis County Judge Jessica Mangrum ruled that he would be allowed to testify ...

Texas has already executed five individuals this year: Ivan Cantu, Ramiro Gonzales, Arthur Lee Burton, Travis Mullis and Garcia White. It was also responsible for eight of the nation's 24 capital ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the ...