How the Supreme Court decides the civil rights issue could affect how readily judges dismiss suits against police for ...

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The two top officials have been butting heads over the past four years over positions and budgetting for Lucido’s office.

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

The only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, Brenda Andrew, was granted a new hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Brooks, serving multiple life terms for the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade attack, is now incarcerated in an unspecified ...

Conservative judges have chipped away at voting rights and put the Voting Rights Act through renewed stress over the last ...

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging US President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to ...

The Supreme Court ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row over concerns that prosecutors’ discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the ...

The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that a man could not stand convicted of identity theft for using the "personal ...

Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the Ohio train crash have asked a court to reject a ...

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.