Richard W. Ervin III, a retired and longest-serving judge of the Tallahassee-based 1st District Court of Appeal, died Tuesday. He was 90. Ervin also had been an assistant U.S. attorney locally and ...

Across the nation, more than half of the approximately 2,100 prisoners with death sentences are incarcerated in jurisdictions where executions are on hold, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Gov. Brian Kemp has appointed a pair of solicitor generals and a judge to fill judicial vacancies on the Rockdale County ...

Jeff Leach, R-Plano, to resign, saying he was making a criminal referral over the North Texas lawmaker’s recent communication with a judge involved in death row inmate Robert Roberson’s appeals.

Jeff Leach of privately trying sway a judge on the state's highest criminal court to reconsider the court's vote in a previous decision and grant death row inmate Robert Roberson a new trial ...

State Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, texted a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge last week that death row inmate Robert Roberson deserves a new trial, an apparent violation of Texas' disciplinary ...

Jeff Leach on Monday of making unethical contact with a Court of Criminal Appeals judge in the Robert Roberson case. In a filing Monday, Deputy Solicitor General William Cole reported the ...

Robert Downey Jr. might be devoid of iron, but he's sure got some steel. The Academy Award-winning actor, 59, is speaking out about rapid technological advancements and how he plans to fight back ...

The judge who will decide the fate of an undocumented migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley is a no-nonsense, silvery-white-haired jurist whose father was killed in an ...

Judge Robert W. Lee, who witnessed history and played a key role in the 2000 presidential election, is retiring after almost three decades on the bench. “I have been a judge for 27 years,” Lee ...