A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

A former county teacher who had once taught at Mt. Vernon and New Palestine schools was sentenced for providing a student with drugs and alcohol but will serve no time in jail following the acceptance ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

A California man was sentenced to 6½ years in prison Tuesday for his role in ongoing “government impostor” gold-bar scams ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman pleads not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from ...

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and National Women's Justice Coalition report on creating a criminal justice system which works for women.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

A woman was arrested for reckless driving and engaging police in a pursuit following a traffic stop Monday evening.

The Louisiana woman linked to the death of a Super Bowl reporter has faced a series of allegations from other men accusing ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.