St. Louis prosecutors charged 26-year-old sheriff’s deputy James Short with two counts of sexual conduct in the course of ...

City jail employee James Short, 26, was previously charged with leaving his service weapon unattended in a separate case in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

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UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A special prosecutor said Monday he made offers to resolve criminal cases against 10 New York prison guards indicted in the beating death of a handcuffed man. Six correctional ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his upcoming execution, arguing that his obesity and health conditions could cause his chosen method of lethal injection to go wrong ...

The execution of death row inmate Mikal Mahdi, of South Carolina ... Sigmon was hooded and wore a black jumpsuit with a target placed over his heart, and was shot while strapped to a metal chair that ...

A second death row inmate has chosen to die by a rarely used ... and Utah are the only US states which offer the firing squad as an execution method. Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi ...