South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., are leading a renewed push to reinstate the death penalty for child rapists.

Two gubernatorial candidates have both put out support for the death penalty for those convicted of child rape.

A decorated Marine combat veteran is scheduled to appear in court after a mass shooting that left three people dead and five people injured at a waterfront bar in Southport, North Carolina ...

Nigel Edge, 40, a Purple Heart recipient whose last assignment was with a Wounded Warrior battalion, made his first court appearance by video link after Saturday’s shooting.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he’s joining a push to overturn a nearly two-decade-old Supreme Court ruling.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he’s joining a push to overturn a nearly two-decade-old Supreme Court ruling.

State Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general supporting efforts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana.

U.S. House members visited North Carolina’s largest city on Monday to hear from family members of violent-crime victims who pleaded for tougher criminal justice ...

The measure is named after Iryna Zarutska, who was killed on August 22 in a brutal attack caught on surveillance video. In the horrific footage, Zarutska boards a light rail car and takes a seat. Four ...

Zarutska 'was failed because there’s a system that would allow someone like that to exhibit the sorts of problematic behaviors without there being ...

The North Carolina legislature has approved a criminal justice package in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte's light rail.

A grief-stricken North Carolina father whose 22-year-old daughter was murdered execution style by a career criminal vows to get justice and seeks the death penalty.