Among those desperately waiting for news in the case was Brian Wharton, the former Palestine, Texas, detective who led the investigation into Nikki’s death. Wharton has since said the ...

As Louisiana prepares for its first execution in 15 years, lawyers for a death row inmate are seeking a last-minute court order to stop the execution from happening. At such a critical moment in US ...

Only three people are on death row in the federal system - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Robert Bowers and Dylann Roof. Biden declined to commute their sentences because they were convicted of terrorism and hate ...

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman has reinstated the death penalty for severe cases, reversing a ban imposed by ...