A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

A CBI court sentenced 10 individuals to life imprisonment and four others to five years for the murder of two Youth Congress ...

A court in China has sentenced a teen boy to life in prison for murdering his classmate, capping a case that sparked debate ...

There was a new district attorney in town, Jose Garza, whose office offered them a deal: plead guilty to a reduced charge of murder, avoid a possible death sentence and serve just 35 years.

A 41-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday in Ramsey County to killing two women, who’d been missing and whose dismembered ...

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s taking 37 people off federal death row resulted in praise from some families and ...

MANKATO — A "series of escalating events," as a judge described it, led to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in Mankato in February and a prison sentence for the 18-year-old defendant.

Gov. Roy Cooper commutes the sentences of 15 convicted killers on death row, including three former Forsyth County residents, ...

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...