AUSTIN, Texas - The state's highest criminal court will not intervene in a Dallas County death penalty case despite another man claiming responsibility for the 2008 shootings. James Broadnax was ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has denied an appeal from death row inmate James Broadnax. The appeal came after his co-defendant, Damarius Cummings, claimed to be the shooter in a 2008 double ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tulsa County killer Raymond E. Johnson speaks Wednesday by video conference from Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester to the ...

Jasveen Sangha, the so-called “Ketamine Queen,” has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for her involvement in the death of Friends star Matthew Perry, reports The New York Times. Sangha pleaded ...

Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore is being hailed as a hero after a shooting on campus. Authorities say former student Victor Hawkins entered the school with a gun around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday ...

Death Row inmate Raymond Johnson will present his case to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday to avoid execution. Johnson was sentenced to death for the 2007 murders of Broke Whitaker ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new memoir is shining light on one man’s time on Louisiana’s death row. It’s the result of a decades-long effort by an LSU alum who first encountered the case as a student ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - James Duckett remains on Florida’s death row after a last-minute appeal stayed his execution, which was scheduled for last Tuesday. The stay was granted to allow for testing of ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

PARIS — France said China has executed a French citizen convicted of drug trafficking after keeping him on death row for more than 15 years. Chan Thao Phoumy, 62, was executed in the southern Chinese ...

John Lithgow says JK Rowling’s controversial views on the transgender community have been “twisted and misrepresented” as backlash continues to swirl around HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — A man who spent decades on death row in Utah asked a judge Friday to throw out his aggravated murder case after the state Supreme Court last year ordered a new trial due to ...