George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

It's unclear whether federal law was even broken when UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed on a New York street.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The spouses of the three men filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking immediate action from the government, given the limited appellate chances they have to save the men on death row., India N ...

20-year-old Wesley Davis was arrested after a child was found unresponsive on March 1 and died days later. SEVIER COUNTY, ...