A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

A Georgia death row inmate who fatally shot a man while fleeing from a bank robbery in Gwinnett County cannot be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection, a federal judge in Atlanta ...

On Feb. 7, North Carolina Judge Wayland Sermons showed what happens when judges broaden the context and notice patterns. What he did made the realities of race in death cases come alive.

A Queens man has pleaded guilty to threatening to choke a federal judge to death during a court appearance last year after the jurist ruled against him in a civil lawsuit. Kenneth Ward ...

AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit which named Summit County Sheriff Kandy Fatheree as a defendant. Earlier this week, A U.S. Northern District Court judge ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad as an alternative.

ATLANTA - A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row. He argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad as an alternative.

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

On Feb. 7, a North Carolina judge ruled in a landmark case that race played a key role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under the Racial ...