When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

In less than a week, China conducted a series of executions on a scale rarely seen in recent decades. In all, 16 core members of mafia-like crime syndicates were put to death for a range of crimes, ...

Houston — A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ...

North Korea is executing schoolchildren for watching South Korean TV shows and listening to K-Pop, including Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game,” according to Amnesty International. Escapees told the ...

A Texas death row inmate who gained notoriety after a brazen escape from jail has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas inmate Charles Victor Thompson, convicted of a 1998 double murder, was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first person executed in the U.S. this year, the Associated Press ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

House Bill 2445 would curb ‘probates for profit’ by tightening court appointment rules. Reforms limit repeat appointees, bars recent felons and mandates local venue. Bill requires heir notice within ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first US execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

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China executed 11 people it found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said. The Wenzhou city Intermediate People’s ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death ...