Melinda Lee Mercer showed extraordinary determination in the final moments of her life, chewing through two of the four ...

The appellate court, therefore, agreed with the findings of the trial court that the police officer indeed had malice aforethought when he caused the death of the deceased. The trial court sentenced ...

Pretrial hearings have been on-again, off-again for so long that some family members of the nearly 3,000 victims now question whether justice is attainable.

A California state prison inmate and four-time convicted murderer has been formally charged with the strangulation murder of ...

On Aug. 15, 1995, Officer Bob Martin was attempting to make a traffic stop when he was shot and killed on Beeline Highway, a few miles north of Shea Boulevard.

Tristan Tan is given a life sentence after the Cabinet considered the specific facts and circumstances of the case, according ...

Tristan Tan's sentence for drug trafficking was commuted to life imprisonment. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of ...

Although the capital sentence was "legally sound", the Cabinet recommended granting clemency to "reduce the disparity" with ...

Kayle Bates, who's from West Palm Beach, is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 19 for the murder of Janet Renee White.

A Tennessee man has avoided a trial and a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to fatally shooting three people and ...