The court ordered the state to postpone the executions until a legal challenge involving the use of a contested sedative in the lethal injection process is resolved.
Warren Hill was executed Tuesday night after the Supreme Court refused to intervene.
Kurdish forces said Monday they regained control of the Syrian border town from the Islamic State militants.
An unprecedented 125 exonerations of innocent criminal defendants was recorded in 2014, according to a new report from a project of the University of Michigan Law School.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens acknowledged evidence that Texas put an innocent man to death for a murder in the 1980s.
Authorities say the 14-year-old girl intentionally drowned the infant inside a Dallas apartment.
Alberto Nisman was set to reveal details about his years-long investigation into a 1994 terror attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Investigators initially said he killed himself, but on Thursday, the government blamed rogue intelligence agents for the killing, adding to an already shocking mystery.
A report by the New York State Commission of Corrections asked for a civil probe into the “incompetent” treatment of a schizophrenic inmate by prison officials.
Two Bridgeton police officers shot and killed Jerame Reid while his hands were up. One officer faced several complaints in the past, while another faced disciplinary action. The victim has been convicted of shooting at officers.
The agreement calls for the Shiite Huthi fighters to leave the president’s home where he was being held captive since Tuesday.
Kathrin Oertel, another leader of the Pegida movement, resigned Wednesday, a week after Lutz Bachmann quit the group when a photo of him styled as Hitler went viral.
A judge dismissed all charges against Michael Johnson, accused of murdering 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, whose body was found in a river months after she disappeared.
Arnold Prieto was executed Wednesday for a cocaine-fueled triple murder in 1993. It was the state’s first execution under Gov. Greg Abbott.
The massive blaze killed cybersecurity executive Donald Pyle, his wife, and four of their grandchildren. An official cause of death has yet to be released.
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The American Civil Liberties Union settled a major lawsuit that challenged the U.S. government’s post-9/11 practice of imprisoning Muslim men as witnesses without any basis.
Four men, suspected of robbery and a double homicide, shot at police officers during an overnight manhunt. All four are in police custody.
The 18-year-old was arrested in Southport, United Kingdom, for hacking PlayStation and Xbox on Christmas Day.
A report by an Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog called the U.S. project “embarrassing” and a “waste of taxpayers’ money.”
The ads call for ending U.S. aid to all Islamic countries.
