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

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

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

Syed, 43, who remains free, has served nearly two dozen years in prison for the murder of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae ...

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 new year means new laws are now in effect in Arkansas. Act 659, also known as the Protect Arkansas Act, states that those ...

Signed into law in 2019 by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act seeks reduced sentences for those who have suffered physical, sexual or psychological abuse by a ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted two other ...

A state appellate court panel Tuesday rejected a re-sentencing bid by one of two men convicted of murdering two USC graduate students from China during a robbery more than a decade ago. A ...

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.

Adnan Syed, who was the subject of the groundbreaking crime podcast "Serial," is requesting a sentence reduction so he can ...

It is a fictional representation created for illustrative purposes only. A local court has delivered a death sentence to Sathish, a man found guilty of murdering a young woman by pushing her in front ...