A jury was convened to determine whether William Arnold Armendariz III should receive life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

A Lancaster man who was previously sent to death row was re-sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering a hip-hop artist at a concert in 2010.

The driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on the Mesa in Santa Barbara last year was sentenced Tuesday to two years behind bars. The sentence was

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death sentences have also declined, from a peak of 25 in 1998 to four in 2024.

21 YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE WORST DOMESTIC MURDERS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA HISTORY HIT THE CITY OF DELTONA. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED INSIDE A HOME IN WHAT’S NOW REFERRED TO BY MANY AS THE X BOX MURDERS. FOUR MEN WERE LATER CONVICTED IN THE KILLINGS, BUT 21 YEARS ...

About 4.1 percent of those who were sentenced to death between 1973 and 2004, or about 300 people, are likely innocent, according to new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. Courtesy of PNAS To reach their ...

Sophia Williams was sentenced to life in prison for the March 2022 murder of her 4-year-old son, Anthony Vice. The boy died of a blunt force trauma to the head.

Qi was a former secretary of the leading Party members' group of the Ningxia regional committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairperson of the committee. The court found that between 2004 and 2021,