For decades, the political and corporate elite in America have not been held accountable for the abuse of power and ...

A Pennsylvania man is sentenced to life without parole after a judge finds him guilty of murder in his father's killing.

The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades ...

The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the ...

A panel of federal appeals court judges on Friday threw out a plea agreement in a 2-1 decision that would have allowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead ...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer, Aníbal Rivas Reed, has been sentenced to 50 years for treason in what his family calls an arbitrary trial.

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case.

Fox News host Charlie Hurt has suggested the White House should invoke the “death penalty” in their hunt for the inside source that leaked intelligence about the Iran strikes to the media ...

NAIROBI - Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu appeared in court on Monday for his latest hearing in a treason trial in which he faces a potential death penalty.

Former Air Force Gen. James Slife wasn't sentenced to hang to death for treason Online users, primarily posting on Facebook, copied and pasted a made-up rumor about the former vice chief of staff ...