PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the state’s ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in 2004 has filed a stay of execution.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Justice Lawrence Larkins Koontz, Jr., 85, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, has died.

Gunches is the second of four death row prisoners in the United States ... in a state with a Democrat serving as governor since Virginia did so in 2017, when Terry McAuliffe was in charge.

While on death row, he stabbed a guard and hit another worker ... of breaking and entering and attacking a police officer in Virginia. “He was repeatedly failed by his own family and the justice ...

Ret. Virginia Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Koontz, a longtime jurist who served on every level of Virginia’s court system and helped shape the state’s judiciary, died Sunday in Salem, according to a ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...