Brian Walshe, the Cohasset man who allegedly killed and dismembered his wife in 2023, has a hearing on Friday in Norfolk ...

President Trump’s installation of a loyalist prosecutor who brought cases against two of his political adversaries will be scrutinized by a federal judge Thursday in a pivotal hearing that could ...

One year after 80-year-old Ruth Dalton and her dog were killed in Seattle, her family is still waiting for justice, as mental ...

In Alabama, that means people charged with less serious crimes, like Clark, “spend more time waiting for a bed than if they ...

Cuyahoga County prosecutors are advocating for a bill that aims to extend the mental competency restoration period for ...

Parents of slain officer Jamieson Ritter and Cuyahoga County prosecutors spoke to the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Experts say more than half of those sitting in South Carolina jails right now are suffering from mental illness, but most facilities lack the resources to help them. Inmates inside ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — A court judge has ruled that quadruple murder suspect Benjamin Naylor is now competent to stand trial for his Cassia County case. Judge Scott Lindstrom ruled Naylor ...

A Colorado law dealing with a defendant's mental competency that puts the state in compliance with a 1972 Supreme Court ruling is causing controversy. If evaluators determine a person is unlikely to ...

Ohio passed a law in 2021 that exempted people with serious mental illnesses from being executed. Nine people have been removed from death row, with 25 cases still pending. Some death row inmates have ...