Before execution, many death row inmates are offered a final meal. The requests range from ordinary to deeply unusual, and in some cases, the meal is declined entirely.

Former Ohio State linebacker Darron Lee could face the death penalty in Tennessee. Here's what we know about that state's ...

Bullets tore through a Shreveport apartment, instantly killing a one-year-old child. The two men charged with the murder had ...

Texas judge declares four men innocent in 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders after 30+ years. DNA evidence identifies real ...

Nashville's Meharry Medical College is expanding beyond its campus to serve rural Tennessee communities through mobile health units and clinic acquisitions, proving health care access is universal.

Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades, has died. He was 84.

For more than three decades, the four men and their families had insisted they were innocent of one of Austin’s most gruesome and notorious crimes: the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a ...

The South Central Correctional Center leaves LGBTQ people defenseless, so they’re organizing to fight for their safety.

A man on state parole following a murder conviction from more than 30 years ago has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a shooting in South Nashville last summer, officials said.

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

Photo: Alamy President Donald Trump said Monday he will direct the Justice Department to seek capital punishment if the missing mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie is killed, escalating the situation ...