Worries about retail theft and fentanyl deaths shaped a November ballot measure that would toughen some criminal penalties.

South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on capital punishment in South ...

A Jan. 10 trial date was scheduled today for a 23-year-old probationer accused of fatally beating a Riverside senior after breaking into her home. Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena of Palm Springs was arrested ...

A top Hezbollah military commander was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday ... Nasrallah ...

South Carolina plans to move forward on Friday with the execution of Freddie Owens, an inmate convicted in the 1997 killing ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause ...

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty should be applied only to the most grievous offenses, a ...

A Taiwan court decided on Friday to retain capital punishment, but ruled its application should be "limited to special and ...

One of the key things Green Day did well with American Idiot that set itself apart from capital-p Political music of the time ... of kids whether they decided to start googling the background of the ...

Anyone serious about reducing abortion will focus on building a strong economy that serves the working and middle classes, ...

The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...

The already dying capital punishment system could be eradicated much sooner if evangelical Christians would stop supporting ...