An Arkansas man charged with murder will get a hearing before the Supreme Court over whether he can be retried on that charge after the trial jury's failure to reach unanimous verdicts on other charges.
The human rights group Amnesty International renewed its call for clemency Wednesday for a man on Georgia's death row, citing continued doubts about his guilt.
The Vatican and former president Jimmy Carter are among those fighting to get clemency for the Georgia death row inmate.
An American attorney representing Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier said Saturday that the former dictator returned to Haiti in hopes of recovering millions frozen in Swiss bank accounts and channeling them through a U.S. intermediary to help rebuild his troubled homeland.
Former Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier is speaking out for the first time since his unexpected return to Haiti.
Bob Barr talks about his involvement in the opt-out alliance. Barr says TSA security measures are "unconstitutional."
A federal appeals court panel deflected a condemned Georgia inmate's appeal of a ruling that denied him a new trial in a decades-old murder case, saying Friday that the appeal should have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court instead.
The U.S. Supreme Court delayed a decision on whether to accept an appeal from a Georgia death row inmate who has gained international support for his claims of innocence in the the murder of a Savannah police officer two decades ago.
CNN's T.J. Holmes talks with the sister of convicted cop killer Troy Davis; his case is on appeal to the Supreme Court.
What started out as a season of unusual opportunity for third-party candidates is coming to a dispiriting close
A new national poll taken entirely after the end of the Republican convention suggests the race for the White House between John McCain and Barack Obama is dead even.
Mary Snow reports on McCain and Palin's sweep through the West and how they are trying to make the case for change.
I believe this election has put a lot of people in a strange place. It's a place that I've never personally been before. Put simply, I couldn't care more, and I couldn't care less.
The liberal environmentalist Green Party nominated former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as its presidential candidate Saturday.
Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday campaigned in Georgia, a Republican-leaning state that his campaign hopes to turn blue.
Barack Obama has been campaigning in traditionally red states. Will he be able to turn them blue? Tom Foreman reports.
With the dust having finally settled after the prolonged Democratic presidential primary, a new poll shows Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama locked in a statistical dead heat in the race for the White House.
CNN Political Editor Mark Preston speaks with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Bob Barr.
Bob Barr was once a loyal soldier in the Republican Party -- a lawmaker GOP leaders could count on to return home each weekend and echo their talking points at local political events, town hall meetings and civic lunches.
The general election season opens with a neck-and-neck race between Barack Obama and John McCain, with more than one in five voters acknowledging that they might change their minds between now and November.
Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider's report on a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll.
Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr was officially nominated Sunday as the Libertarian candidate for president.
Heading to the party's convention, its leaders must decide if principle is more important than popularity
CIA Director Porter Goss is resigning, President Bush announced Friday.
So we hear this week that President George W. Bush is taking delight in the spread of the "alternative press" (read conservatives on the internet, in talk radio, in print, and at Fox) and the gentle detumesence of "mainstream media" (read liberal media, or more precisely, Democratic media). Well I join him in his satisfaction.
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