Houston — A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers are considering new legislation to close a legal loophole that has allowed strangers to take control of estates, sell homes and pocket millions of dollars ...

House Bill 2445 would curb ‘probates for profit’ by tightening court appointment rules. Reforms limit repeat appointees, bars recent felons and mandates local venue. Bill requires heir notice within ...

A Texas death row inmate who gained notoriety after a brazen escape from jail has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, ...

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Nearly 70 years after the state of Texas put him to death, Dallas County officials formally exonerated Tommy Lee Walker, a 21-year-old Black man executed two years after being wrongfully convicted of ...

BEIJING, Jan 29 (Reuters) - China executed 11 criminals from gangs based in northern Myanmar that included key members of telecom fraud groups, state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. The 11 were ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death ...

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.

Charles Victor Thompson was executed by lethal injection Wednesday after serving almost three decades on Texas Death Row. Credit: April Towery A man convicted in the 1998 double murder of his ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death ...