South Korea's former President Yoon Suk Yeol has won a rare legal reprieve in one of the criminal cases brought after he was ...

A New York jeweler has been released from prison in Iran, but he is prohibited from leaving the country. The family of Kamran ...

When tiger poachers and traffickers are apprehended in Southeast Asia, they frequently get away without consequences: Fewer ...

The defendant told the judge he had "hurt no one" while his lawyer pleaded for mercy.

A 38-year-old Little Rock man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting a girl between the ages of 7 and 8 ...

A Galveston County judge has handed down one of the harshest sentences ever seen in an automotive fraud case. Richard Thomas Finley, former owner of Classic American Street Rods in the San ...

A Massachusetts woman was given a harsher sentence in federal court than the advisory guidelines recommend for trafficking stolen human remains.

Gavin Newsom called the state’s death penalty system a failure and issued an executive order halting executions. His order — and the sight of the lethal injection gurney and the gas chamber chair ...

More than 560 people still face death sentences in California, despite a longstanding moratorium on executions.

The Canadian law, which came into effect in 1948, hands mothers a tiny jail sentence if they killed their child before their ...

Federal prosecutors want former state school construction boss Konstantinos Diamantis sent to prison for at least a decade, ...

A judge sentenced a 64-year-old man to an effective life sentence in the 2019 shooting death of a West Haven man and the ...