WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Three British men held without charge at Guantanamo Bay will see lawyers for the first time within days as part of a new legal battle to get the men released.

NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (UPI) -- Attorneys for Louisiana death row inmate Ryan Matthews say DNA tests have proved that he is an innocent man.

Two prosecutors from the D.A.'s office in Jefferson Parish -- New Orleans -- are in trouble with their boss for wearing neckties depicting a hangman's noose and the Grim Reaper at a recent hearing in a capital murder case.

MIAMI, March 21 (UPI) -- Testimony by the prosecution's key witness began Thursday in the circuit court hearing on whether to reinstate the death sentence for a British subject convicte

ANGOLA, La., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of Leslie Dale Martin Friday minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection for the 1991 rape and murder of a 1