The police had sought the death penalty in a horrific but familiar crime. Its handling by the local authorities had outraged ...

An Indiana woman who weighed 340 pounds killed her 10-year-old foster son by sitting on him for “acting up” and now will head ...

An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

A federal judge in Washington on Friday sentenced Kellye SoRelle, a top lawyer for the Oath Keepers militia group, to 12 ...

Since mandatory immigration detention was first signed into law in 1996 for a subset of people in deportation proceedings, it ...

Former San Francisco 49er Dana Stubblefield, whose 2020 rape conviction was vacated late last year, will remain in California ...

A man who pleaded guilty to a deadly shooting outside of a Parkway Village grocery store back in 2022 has now been sentenced ...

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part ...

MEDFORD -- A federal judge on Friday sentenced convicted kidnapper Negasi Zuberi to two consecutive life terms in prison, ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards said in a federal ...

The upper galleries at two Michigan prisons have been used for four suicide jumps. But a worker said in 2023 they are also an ...