DYLANN ROOF SAYS IT'S 'NOT FAIR' HE HAS TO HEAR SO MUCH FROM THE LOVED ONES OF HIS VICTIMS

Dylann Roof says it's 'not fair' he has to hear so much from the loved ones of his victims... READ MORE›

OHIO READY TO RESUME EXECUTIONS WITH NEW DRUG COMBINATION

Ohio plans to resume executions next year with a new three-drug combination after a three-year hiatus, state officials said Monday... READ MORE›

MENTALLY ILL MAN SET TO DIE IN ARKANSAS 'CONVEYOR BELT' EXECUTIONS

Later, after he was put on death row in Arkansas, he was observed to be a loner who lived in almost total isolation... READ MORE›

DRAWINGS OF POLICE TORTURING A SUSPECT CAPTIVATE CHINA

Mr. Liu said in the telephone interview that he was not afraid of possible retaliation from the police over the drawings... READ MORE›

JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS

Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... READ MORE›

DECADES IN JAIL FOR ANOTHER MANS CRIME

Robert Jones was accused of being behind a crime spree of rape, robbery and then the murder of holidaymaker Julie Stott in New Orleans in 1992... READ MORE›

MEXICOS MURDEROUS ALLIANCE OF STATE, THE ARMY AND THE DRUG CARTELS

Mexico's murderous alliance of state the army and the drug cartels... READ MORE›

BALTIMORE GRAND JURY INDICTS SIX OFFICERS IN FREDDIE GRAY'S DEATH

Rice, a lieutenant who initiated a chase with Gray, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second degree assault, two counts of misconduct in office, and reckless endangerment... READ MORE›

BLACK 14-YEAR-OLD BOY EXONERATED 70 YEARS AFTER HE WAS EXECUTED

George Stinney Jr Black 14-year-old boy exonerated 70 years after he was executed... READ MORE›

BREAKING BAD FAN GUILTY OF DARK WEB RICIN PLOT

The court heard Ali had made a to-do list on his computer which included the entries paid ricin guy and get pet to murder ... READ MORE›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›

BILL COSBY ARRIVES FOR DAY 2 OF HEARING THAT COULD DECIDE HIS FATE

According to his testimony Tuesday, Castor believed Constand had been molested by Cosby but he thought he couldn't prove it a year after the alleged crime... READ MORE›

JW LEDFORD JR LAWYERS WANT FIRING SQUAD, NOT INJECTION

Georgia already has the skilled personnel, weapons and ammunition needed to carry out an execution by firing squad, Ledford's lawyers argued... READ MORE›

PENSIONER ACCUSED OF EATING ALLEGED VICTIMS 'MAY HAVE MURDERED 10 MORE'

Russian pensioner and suspected cannibal Tamara Samsonova 'may be responsible for 10 more murders'... READ MORE›

FREDDIE GRAY JURY DELIBERATES THIRD DAY IN BALTIMORE

Officer William Porter, 26, could face 25 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter, assault, misconduct and reckless endangerment... READ MORE›

JESSICA WONGSO GETS 20 YEARS FOR CYANIDE MURDER

An Australian resident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering her friend with a cyanide laced coffee... READ MORE›

ARIZONA INVITES DEATH ROW INMATES TO BRING THEIR OWN EXECUTION DRUGS TO SIDESTEP EU BAN

Arizona has devised a new way of sidestepping an EU ban on the supply of lethal injection drugs to US jails... READ MORE›

AMANDA KNOX CONVICTION BASED ON POOR CASE

Knox and Sollecito had served nearly four years in Italian prison after a first, lower court conviction by a Perugia court... READ MORE›

Execution Date Set for 'Delusional' Murderer Scott Panetti in Texas... READ MORE›

NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013

If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›

FIRING SQUADS COULD BE MAKING COMEBACK IN US EXECUTIONS

Wyoming's legislation again legalizing firing squads provides the state with a fall back in the event the Supreme Court rules that lethal injections are unconstitutional... READ MORE›

AMANDA KNOX ACQUITTED BECAUSE OF 'STUNNING FLAWS' IN INVESTIGATION, SAYS ITALY TOP COURT

Knox was definitively cleared in March over the 2007 murder of Miss Kercher, a 21-year-old Leeds University student from Surrey, after nearly a decade of courtroom saga... READ MORE›

34 INMATES ESCAPE CROWDED JAIL IN HAITI WITH SUSPECTED HELP OF PRISON GUARDS

Photograph Dieu Nalio Chery AP Saint-Marc is a port city about 60 miles 95km north of Port-au-Prince and is the largest city between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien... READ MORE›

Ohio has postponed all six of its scheduled executions this year until 2016 as it tries to find supplies of drugs to use in lethal injections... READ MORE›

BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERS OF BRITISH BACKPACKERS

Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun convicted of murdering David Miller and Hannah Witheridge in Koh Tao in 2014. Miller's brother says justice has been delivered ... READ MORE›

Bills pushing for backups to lethal injection have been making progress in state legislatures... READ MORE›

COURT OKS OHIO DO-OVER OF FAILED LETHAL INJECTION OF ROMELL BROOM

He is the only inmate to survive an execution using lethal injection... READ MORE›

IRAN JAILS TWO UNNAMED PEOPLE FOR 10 YEARS FOR ESPIONAGE

Revolutionary court sentencing announced on Sunday as Jason Rezaian, an Iranian American reporter accused of spying, awaits verdict... READ MORE›

FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF COLORADO MASS MURDERER EXPRESS ANGER AFTER HE ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY

James Holmes' victims' families angry as Colorado theatre shooter is spared death penalty over 12 murders... READ MORE›

FATHER OF CHARLESTON SHOOTING SUSPECT CLAIMS HE IS RECEIVING ENDLESS THREATENING PHONE CALLS

The current Black Panther Party was founded in 1989 an extremist black radical political group... READ MORE›