The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

Appearing in court via Zoom from a mental hospital in Columbus, Alto Miles admitted he killed four people during the course of two days in April 2020. "What is your plea to those four counts?" asked ...

Florida executed Hutchinson on Thursday despite a letter from 129 veterans to the governor arguing that Hutchinson's mind was ...

Attorneys for Victorino didn’t deny the fact that he influenced others and still does to this day. But they claim he now does ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at the age of 91, former Illinois House Republican leader Jim ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...