D.A. Mike Segrest sought death for Derrick Hightower. The last death sentence handed down in the circuit was by his father, ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara Tidwell on April 17, 2020. This sentence marks ...

India is closely monitoring the case of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, sentenced to death in Yemen for murder. The government is ...

Hightower killed Willie Tidwell, 61, and Barbara Tidwell, 65, in their home in April 2020. Court records state the couple was murdered while the defendant trying to steal two firearms and prescription ...

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which ...

In the United States, a military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw out plea ...

A military appeals court has denied Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s attempt to overturn plea agreements for Khalid Sheikh ...

Brian Lyman’s “Alabama’s death penalty depends on darkness” (Dec. 22) provides a chilling example of how woke hyperbole ...

The decision reinstates plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, sparing them the death penalty ...

A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for ...