On this day in history, the US carried out its first execution by lethal injection — a method thought up by one doctor.

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-five people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

This year hasn't shied away from having its fair share of such well-crafted films, as the most impactful and highest-rated ...

At 7 p.m. Saturday his three hunting partners called the Coast Guard after searching for him and he didn’t show up at camp. By 1:45 a.m. a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter had landed the search party on ...

The Secret Agent” sounds like the title of a pulpy thriller from the 1970s that played on the bottom of a cinema’s double ...

The 23-year-old man who admitted desecrating the tomb a few hours before the former French justice minister's entry into the Panthéon on 9 October was sentenced on Wednesday by the Nanterre court. Vie ...

Although our history books are filled to the brim with the names of men who helped lead globally consequential revolutions, ...

Robert Stirm's family reunion at Travis Air Force Base - immortalized in a Pulitzer-winning photo - masked the painful ...

An Indiana lawmaker is moving forward with legislation that would authorize execution by firing squad under limited circumstances, expanding the methods available for carrying out capital punishment ...

2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine publisher and acclaimed independent multimedia studio, Rebellion, has launched new officially ...

Justices to consider how to determine if a person is "intellectually disabled." ...

Teenager Cash Daniels from Chattanooga was honored as a CNN Heroes Young Wonder for helping to clean up the Tennessee River. CNN said, "Now 16, Daniels began collecting trash around the river ... more ...