Christa Pike's death row case in Tennessee sparks debate on childhood trauma, accountability and mercy in justice.

Prosecutors in Florida formally announced they intend to seek the death penalty for a 27-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a child, killing two minors, and setting their home on fire to ...

Children can be exposed to ‘execution videos and escort services’ via social media ‘with little effort’, an investigation has found. Tech providers have increasingly beefed up child safety checks, ...

A bill to make rape, sodomy, or sexual torture of a child punishable by the death penalty is on its way to Gov. Kay Ivey. The Alabama Senate passed the bill by a vote of 33-1 on Thursday morning. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shamar Elkins, who served in the Louisiana Army National Guard from 2013 to 2020, killed 8 children in a mass shooting that began ...

The Alabama Legislature begins its annual session Tuesday and will be ready to vote on bills as early as Thursday. A bill to make rape of a child younger than 12 a death penalty offense is near the ...

A registered sex offender who raped and killed a little girl a dozen years ago is scheduled to die Nov. 16 by lethal injection, a judge announced Tuesday at a brief court hearing. State District Judge ...