Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his ...

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a plea seeking abolition of the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging and replacing it with less painful methods ...

South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while ...

Toca Madera Houston claims city fire code rules are unconstitutional, forcing $500 nightly fees for marshal oversight of its ...

A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of former Oakland football coach John Beam. Beam died ...

Thousands of people turned out to see mega stars like President Donald Trump, Lionel Messi and Jeff Bezos. What did they take away?

Foley wrote more than 25 volumes of poetry and an encyclopedia of California writers of verse that ran 1,300 pages.

Known around the world for her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees, conservationist Jane Goodall was among a number of noteworthy people who died in October.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...