The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

A vile Newcastle paedophile who subjected two young girls to multiple rapes and sexual assaults has died in prison. Last year ...

He told police in 2024 that, while he did not deny the allegations, he would give no further comment, with a judge later ...

A report from the Death Penalty Information Center shows Alabama played a key role in executions and new death sentences.

A man who ran "what was essentially a mail order company" sending drugs around the country has been delivered to prison. So ...

But it was the footage deemed too graphic and upsetting for the general public to see which tells the true story. Paul ...

A WINSFORD man is awaiting sentence after admitting a number of sex offences. Charlie Corcoran appeared at Chester Crown Court for a plea hearing this week. The 24-year-old, of Abbotts Way, admitted ...

While Pennsylvania has a lengthy list of inmates nominally on death row, the state hasn't actually executed anyone since 1999 ...

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison for stealing and selling ...

Two men were sentenced today (Friday) for a range of terrorist offences including deploying a wildlife camera to monitor and ...

The White House says the Trump administration is "the most transparent in history" and has "done more for the victims than ...

Lorena Royster's stepdaughter welcomes sentence, which prosecutors had requested, saying the number 72 'is going to forever ...