When 11-year-old Teresa Mae McAbee was kidnapped, raped, strangled and drowned in the small Florida city of Mascotte nearly 40 years ago, a surprising suspect emerged: a rookie cop named James Duckett ...

Dr. Sheila Nazarian said Wednesday on "America's Newsroom" that actress Elizabeth Banks and other public figures are ignoring what she described as ongoing human rights abuses against women in Iran, ...

Graphic Warning: This story contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault that may be disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. (NewsNation) — As a second round of U.S.-Iran negotiations is ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it won't consider another man's confession as a reason to pause a scheduled lethal injection in three weeks. James Broadnax was convicted of murdering ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - James Duckett remains on Florida’s death row after a last-minute appeal stayed his execution, which was scheduled for last Tuesday. The stay was granted to allow for testing of ...

THE STORY. OLIVIA, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US TONIGHT? WELL, CHANTEL, DEATH PENALTY ABOLITIONISTS SAY WHEN THIS TRIAL HAPPENED NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO, THE JURY DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR HIS PTSD AND ADD THAT HE’S ...

James Duckett — a former Lake County police officer sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago for raping and drowning an 11-year-old girl — wants the Florida Supreme Court to extend the pause on his ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Life in prison without parole is the sentence for a man found guilty in the execution-style murder of a 25-year-old victim. Djaune Ferguson learned his fate Tuesday after ...

A Palestinian protester holds a placard showing a crossed-out noose during a rally in the Beit Jala village near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ...

Despite an eleventh-hour confession from another man, James Broadnax is slated to be executed by the state of Texas later this week. Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection ...

In the last 50 years, the U.S. has put more than 1,600 people to death, but only about 1 percent of those executed have been women. That’s not because of lingering cultural stereotypes, but because, ...

The Florida Supreme Court set a Wednesday deadline for briefs to be submitted in a request for an independent analysis of DNA test results. James Duckett appears in a photo taken on death row at Union ...