For more than 40 years, since his service as a young Reagan administration lawyer, Chief Justice John Roberts has pressed for an exceptionally powerful US president, one who could fire the heads of ...

The Supreme Court strengthened President Trump’s control over independent agencies in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overruling 91 years of precedent that allowed Congress to insulate certain ...

Florida’s scheduled execution Thursday evening of Dusty Ray Spencer, 74, will make him the oldest person put to death in the state since Florida’s reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Nineteen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIAMI (AP) — A 74-year-old man convicted of fatally stabbing his wife became the oldest person executed in Florida's modern ...

Netflix’s June 2026 documentary Maternal Instinct has reignited public interest in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent Texas history: the 2020 killing of pregnant 21-year-old Reagan ...

Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

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The U.S. Army is preparing to carry out four executions if President Donald Trump gives the order to do so, according to an internal planning document reviewed by ABC News. The plan, if carried out, ...

A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his ...

Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to intimidate Iranians from returning to the streets. By Sanam Mahoozi and ...

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip was released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years Thursday after posting bond while awaiting retrial for a 1997 killing that put ...

Despite massive support from rappers, scholars, and lawyers — plus a new confession from his cousin in the double-murder case that saw them both convicted — 37-year-old James Broadnax was executed by ...