A 6-year-old boy has died and his mother and two firefighters were injured after a fire in an apartment building on Chicago's ...

Gas station and convenience store chain Sheetz is on track to have a Middletown store along the booming Interstate 75 corridor in the city's East End. The city's planning commission approved the final ...

Texas has executed Richard Lee Tabler by lethal injection after he was found guilty of the murders of two people ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

For a long time, that has been the case with the role of race in America’s death penalty system. It is by now well documented ...

Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...