Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal prosecutors say the government can seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing a Terre Haute police officer ...

A legal fight over whether the federal government can seek execution of the man charged with killing a Terre Haute police detective who also was an FBI task force agent continues. To be clear, the U.S ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A federal judge has blocked the United States from seeking the death penalty for Shane Meehan, a Terre Haute man accused of killing a Terre Haute police officer. Meehan is accused ...

FBI agents took the unusual step of temporarily letting a federal death row inmate out of his cell so he could help with the search for the body of one of the two women he killed. Chadrick Evan Fulks, ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — After Sister Barbara Battista, a Roman Catholic nun staunchly opposed to the death penalty, agreed to accompany a condemned man at his execution in federal prison, she wondered ...