China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes. Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm ...

A Florida man who raped and murdered his next-door neighbor after inviting her over for coffee is set to become the 15th inmate executed in the state this year, nearly double Florida's previous record ...

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Washington — President Trump's efforts to reshape the executive branch and flex his presidential power are set to be tested at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices convene to hear a case ...

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Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols was executed by lethal injection on Dec. 11. Nichols, 64, sentenced to death for the brutal beating and rape of 20-year-old Karen Pulley in 1988, spoke ...

President Donald Trump’s lawyer argued on Monday for far-reaching power that would go well beyond his ability to fire officials at the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies. Liberal ...

This story contains details of a violent crime that some readers may find disturbing. A Florida man who stabbed a stay-at-home mom to death and later orchestrated a daring jailbreak is set to become ...

In state’s 18th execution this year, Mark Geralds, 58, given three-drug injection for 1989 stabbing of Tressa Pettibone A man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman during a home invasion decades ago ...

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in the ...

Karen Pulley, 20, was brutally beaten and raped in the home she shared with two other women on Sept. 30, 1988. During a three month period spanning the end of 1988 and beginning of 1989, Nichols raped ...

Florida is set to execute Frank Athen Walls, which will be the 19th execution in the state this year. This number shatters Florida's previous record of eight executions in a single year. Under Gov.