Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

On the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving in 2022, a panga piloted by two cousins from Baja California capsized as it ...

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced it will seek the death penalty for an Oklahoma inmate charged with killing one ...

Mark Maremont is a senior editor with The Wall Street Journal. He focuses on investigative reporting, particularly in the ...

A federal judge in Boston is vigorously denying the marathon bomber’s last-ditch accusation that another magistrate must ...

Biden, who is known to be the first president outwardly against the use of the death penalty, commuted the sentences of 37 ...

The culture secretary has said the BBC's licence fee is "unenforceable" and insisted "no options are off the table" when the government begins a review into the corporation's current funding model ...

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal charges after he was indicted for allegedly assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO ...

Roof, 31, is one of three condemned men on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, along with 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 congregants in ...

Massachusetts has been home to some of the country's most infamous criminal trials. According to a new study, the state also has some of the longest.

From the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the case against former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, Massachusetts' courthouses have seen a number of shocking criminal ...