Virginia will be the 11th state in 16 years to abolish the death penalty. Capital punishment has disappeared from all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic coastal states, he said.

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and ...

The court also separately has acted on an emergency basis in a number of cases involving challenges to President Donald Trump's policies. The court on July 3 decided to hear a bid by Idaho and West ...

Virginia’s death row population peaked in 1995 at 57 or 58 inmates. Today there are just four, the fewest since July 1979, not long after Virginia law was changed enabling resumption of the ...

The departure of James Ryan represents a dramatic escalation in the administration’s effort to reshape higher education.

Starting July 1st, a new penalty will be added to the state of Virginia’s pedestrian laws to further protect individuals ...

Co-defendant Corey Johnson was put to death on Jan. 14, 2021. David Anthony Runyon, sentenced in 2009 for his involvement in the death of a naval officer in a murder-for-hire plot in Newport News.

Dr Al-Sultan is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the last 50 days. Targeting medics is a war ...

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case over state restrictions on which school sports teams transgender students can join.

People who leave animals or other people in their care unattended in a vehicle can face hefty fines and jail time in West ...

Learn what happened to librarian Andrea Cincotta, whose fiancé called 911 to report he’d found his longtime love’s body in a ...