A 26-year-old man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday for killing a 24-year-old man in South Peoria in September ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist. Peltier was represented by Kevin ...

At least two times during his 2024 campaign for the presidency, Trump said he intended to release pro-life activists who are currently imprisoned.

Gladys Sashay Ingersoll, 24, was sentenced for the July 2022 murder of Chyna Shepard in the bathroom of an Akron bar.

Penn State graduate Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for running Silk Road, a drug marketplace on the dark web that conducted more than US$200 million in illegal drugs trade using bitcoin ...

A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for what a judge called “the most extreme, ...

An Alabama inmate set to die next month is asking to be sent back to a Michigan prison. The state doesn't want him back.

The Lehigh County district attorney had asked the court to reset bail to no bail while they await trial on charges that they raped a prostitute while members of the Allentown Police Vice Unit. The ...

A Springfield man was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for attacking a woman on the Simon Kenton bike trail in May ...

Lyle and Erik Menendez are serving life without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents. Relatives are urging a judge to reduce their sentence.

The judge said he could not impose a life sentence because the killer was under 18 when he committed the crime.

A teenager has been sentenced to 52 years in prison for fatally stabbing three girls at a children's Taylor Swift-themed event in the United Kingdom last year. Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to ...