More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Night Court was a hit sitcom that took an irreverent look at the justice system in Manhattan. Created by Reinhold Weege, the ...

Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian US and HBO Max, among other platforms. Fayette County ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder ...

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the ...

A federal jury found a private company running a Louisiana jail liable for the 2015 death of a man who died of head injuries ...

MADISON COUNTY, Ohio — At 18, most new adults are preparing to take on the world. But at that tender age in 2004, Jamie Matheny said she felt her world crumbling all around her. Court records show she ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Texas National Guard troops were expected to be deployed to the Broadview ICE processing center Wednesday evening, law enforcement sources told the ABC7 I-Team. The Illinois National ...

BINGHAM, Maine (WABI) - The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is hearing cases at several high schools this week. On Tuesday in Bingham at Upper Kennebec Valley High School, the high court heard oral ...

Under one of the changes, the “originally assigned judge must maintain full responsibility” for a case from start to finish.

With filing set to open soon, a federal court has yet to rule on Texas' new congressional maps, leaving candidates uncertain about which districts they'll run in.

State Proposition 3 seeks to require judges to deny bail for certain felony offenses, while Proposition 12 would rework the 13-member State Commission on Judicial Conduct, allowing the governor to ...