An Alabama legislator is sponsoring legislation to compensate the families of volunteer firefighters stricken with cancer ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half—47%—of ...

Miller’s sisters, his brother, brother-in-law, a spiritual advisor and two of his attorneys spent the day with him.

Oklahoma is preparing to execute a man for his role in the 1992 shooting death of an Oklahoma City convenience store owner ...

Alan Eugene Miller, 59, is scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas at a south Alabama prison. Miller was convicted of ...

Amid a surge of executions being carried out across the country, Indiana’s first death row inmate in more than a decade is ...

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner after the governor again ...

Short on supplies, short on power and short on patience, the people who saw the power of a massive storm upend their lives ...

Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life ...

Following Week 6 of the college football season, the odds for each SEC team to win the conference championship have been ...

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

The magnitude of devastation wrought by Helene keeps intensifying as the death toll surges past 100 and storm survivors face the grueling task of rebuilding their lives.