A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...

Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, approved the payout after Massey was killed in her home last summer by a sheriff's deputy. She had called for help.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya ...

The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association president said he expects an appeals court to rule in its favor after oral ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

Lloyd Gaines, a valedictorian and aspiring lawyer, made history in the 1930s when he challenged the University of Missouri School of Law’s rejection due to segregation ...

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John P. Sheeran had pleaded guilty as a youthful offender to attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon.

We didn’t eat like this,” my cousin Patrick jokes, cutting his steak at a homecoming dinner with family to celebrate his ...

The request to dismiss the charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York raised questions about the independence of federal ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...