In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous pardon.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies' execution by firing squad is just a month away. Utah's Board of Pardons and Parole will hold hearings next week to consider his request to commute his death sentence to life without parole. His ...

If any event in Iraq should have been completely under the control of U.S. forces and the government they defend, it was the final moments of condemned former dictator Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, like so much else that has occurred since the 2003 U.S ...

The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate's upcoming execution, after the inmate's attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client's worsening dementia should spare him from capital punishment. When given ...