TALLAHASSEE — Legislation that would make it easier to get death penalty decisions in Florida is one step away from passing both chambers in the Capitol. The morning after the Senate passed the same ...

A more just system would permit judges to take into account all the facts and circumstances of both the crime and the individual's background, and impose a sentence accordingly, a guest columnist for ...

A 12-year-old Chattanooga boy accidentally shot himself in Eastdale Friday while his mother was inside a nearby store. Few details were released about the incident, so we don't know if the gun was ...

The Reagan Tokes Act is an Ohio law that took effect in 2019 in response to the murder of a 21-year-old female college student by a man recently released from prison. The law requires judges to give ...

The 48-year sentence of one of two women who pleaded guilty in the 2016 death of a 3-year-old will stand, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Rebekah Joy Wallin, who along with her ...

Nelson Morris was only 17 when he was arrested for a double murder that eventually doomed him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no chance of parole. “When you’re that age … you can never ...

Nicole Beverly almost lost her life in 2009 when she tried to leave an abusive husband and, again, several years later, when the same man while still in prison attempted to hire inmates to kill her.