Kay Ivey this week was one execution away from setting a record among Alabama governors in the modern era of the death penalty. But instead she chose to spare a man’s life, setting an entirely ...

Bernice Starks told detectives during a 1992 interview that she helped plot the drive-by murder of a popular Detroit middle school teacher so her friend and partner in crime could continue a ...

One of Santos’ lawyers told the New York Post late Friday that the former lawmaker was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey, around 11 p.m. The New York Republican ...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- The South Dakota Parole Board has recommended that the life sentence of a man who killed his adoptive father in Martin 26 years ago be commuted.