The 1979 trial of Dan White was perceived as a miscarriage of justice because of the Twinkie's role in reducing his ...

Patrick Crusius, 26, is expected to plead guilty Monday to capital murder and receive a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole for the massacre near the U.S.-Mexico border.

My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz”—truncated, cryptic, and never quite satisfying to receive. I’ll often find myself ...

The sentencing trial of a man guilty of killing a Houston family of three has come to a close. On March 24, moments before opening statements were given at 30-year-old Xavier Davis’s trial, he pleaded ...

By Vivian Yee Reporting from Damascus, Syria In the latest sign of deepening repression in what was once virtually the sole Arab democracy, a court in Tunisia has handed down heavy sentences to ...

The disgraced former New York congressman might be earning a longer prison sentence thanks to his sour social media posts, which prosecutors argue demonstrate a lack of remorse Meredith Kile is a ...

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled mandatory life sentences without parole for 19- and 20-year-old murderers unconstitutional. The court found such sentences constitute cruel and unusual punishment ...

ROME (AP) — An Italian appeals court Friday upheld life sentences for a Pakistani couple convicted of murdering their 18-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing after she refused an arranged ...

Michigan’s supreme court ruled last week that it is unconstitutional to impose an automatic sentence of life without the possibility of parole on young adults up to age 20, saying they deserve an ...

Georgia is the only state that requires a defendant’s intellectual disability be proved “beyond a reasonable doubt” in order to exempt them from the death penalty, a sentence that the Supreme Court ...

A new lawsuit launched by 21 of the 37 convicts whose death sentences were controversially commuted by President Biden at the close of his presidency accuses President Trump of violating the Eighth ...