DeKalb County police are asking for the public's help to locate 20-year-old Albert "Alex" Waugh, an autistic man who went missing from a Lithonia group home with no money or identification, according ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

After a botched execution attempt in 2024, Idaho lawmakers made death by firing squad the state's primary execution method. Lethal injection was first proposed in New York in the late 1800s, though ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

Three Newark men have pleaded guilty for their roles in the violent kidnapping and murder of a 27-year-old man whose body was dumped along a North Jersey highway four years ago. New Jersey State ...

A department of transportation employee had been cutting grass along the shoulder of the highway when he uncovered human remains US launches strikes on Iran after downing of Army helicopter, prompting ...

This article will update. Get breaking news alerts on your phone → download the IndyStar app. An Indianapolis woman reported missing earlier this year along with her seven children has been found dead ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...

An American college student who went missing during a family vacation in Japan has been found dead by search-and-rescue volunteers, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested ...

A death row inmate convicted in the 2003 killing of his common-law wife is scheduled to be executed in August after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date. Carlos Cuesta ...

Tennessee’s failure to execute a man by lethal injection last month after no one could locate a suitable vein led to a rare unmasking: Not only was a practicing physician identified as a participant ...