A bill to expand the state’s definition of sexual extortion to include threats of what is often referred to as “revenge porn, ...

The Utah House voted to allow ICE to immediately deport immigrants who are convicted of violent class A misdemeanors.

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Undocumented immigrants convicted of first-degree murder or raping children would face mandatory death sentences, under bills ...

When used responsibly botulinum toxin is very safe, but patients should be especially vigilant about cosmetic treatments done ...

No capital punishment has been approved by the Supreme Court for a second year in a row in India. The last hangings in India ...

The cost of a bill that would require violent offenders to spend more of their sentences in prison instead of transitional ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, ...

A key part of California's Proposition 36 promised to direct people convicted of certain drug crimes to treatment. Counties ...