DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran says it executed nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack. The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced the executions Tuesday.

Tensions have escalated between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country’s ...

The 2007 case Panetti v. Quarterman raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, requiring a “rational understanding” of ...

Justices will consider the case that revolves around the role of multiple IQ scores in determining an Alabama murderer’s ...

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan's halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens ...

A Pepperdine University academic has nominated North Little Rock anti-capital-punishment activist Jeff Hood to receive the ...

Three ancient artifacts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were officially returned to Iraq on Monday following a criminal investigation into looted antiquities. The items—a ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Mayor Paul Young and several other city leaders responded Monday, a day after the FBI director called the city the ‘homicide capital of the USA.’ FBI Director Kash ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kenneth Branagh, Hiam Abbass (Succession) and Boyd Holbrook (A Complete Unknown) are teaming on a feature adaptation of 2012 New Yorker article Atonement. Atonement, which rolls cameras ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - As Memphis Police responded to a number of shootings and other violent incidents over the weekend, the city was hit with the label "homicide capital of America" by FBI Director ...