Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File) In ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...

Tempers flared inside Litchfield County Superior Court in Torrington Tuesday, as three people were arraigned in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Jacqueline Torres-Garcia. Her decomposed body ...

TORRINGTON, CT (WFSB) - Three suspects charged in connection with the death of 11-year-old Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres returned to court Friday, with each defendant taking different legal approaches as ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected two challenges to a 2023 law that allows judges to impose death sentences without unanimous jury recommendations. Ruling in cases from ...

The courtroom reacted before the judge could. As Ashlee Buzzard entered a not guilty plea Friday morning to charges accusing her of murdering her 9-year-old daughter, gasps rippled through the gallery ...

The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will take up a death row inmate's challenge over allegations that the dismissal of four black jurors during his trial was unlawful, adding to the justices' ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...

The Kansas Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for Wednesday in the cases of Reginald and Jonathan Carr.

Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death, cementing the lowest bar in the country for death sentences at a time ...