A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by the state this ...

Milwaukee police recovered four firearms—including a modified machine gun—and illegal narcotics during a search warrant execution on Tuesday. The suspect fled a traffic stop in a rental vehicle and ...

The Department of Justice on Friday directed the Bureau of Prisons to expand death penalty protocols to include pentobarbital injections and firing squads as part of broader actions to strengthen the ...

A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing a man and writing a message to investigators with the victim’s blood more than 20 years ago elected on Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen ...