#homicide

Frank Strada resigned as Tennessee's corrections commissioner after Christa Pike's botched lethal injection left her hospitalized on a ventilator.

Jesus Acosta, a parolee with 13 prior arrests, was captured after an FBI manhunt for allegedly killing two New Yorkers during a 48-hour robbery spree.

Tennessee and Oklahoma executed inmates within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by Alabama later in the day.

Three men who witnessed a fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers in Houston say no officer was threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said.

A substitute teacher who reportedly identifies as female was arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia, for allegedly threatening a high school, police say.

Prosecutors allege Yefry Archaga, 18, lured 15-year-old Miles Young into a deadly ambush in Missouri. He is held on a federal immigration detainer.