Supreme Court Rejects Inmate’s Plea for Firing Squad

The inmate, Ernest Johnson, argued that Missouri’s planned use of pentobarbital to execute him would cause excruciating pain.

The Crumbling of the N.R.A.

Could an investigation into financial misconduct be the undoing of America’s most powerful gun rights group?

Judge Dismisses Murder Charge Against California Mother After Stillbirth

The woman, Chelsea Becker, had consumed methamphetamine beforehand, the authorities said.

Judge Drops Murder Charges Against Two Officers Accused of Body-Slamming Man

Officers Desmond Barney and Lincoln Lampley were charged last year with killing George Robinson, 62, in Mississippi.