A dramatic decrease in the number of people in prison being granted parole and a slew of recent laws that lengthen sentences ...

It’s been more than 15 years since Washington state executed a death row inmate. In 2014, then-Gov. Jay Inslee placed a ...

Tallinn Circuit Court increased the sentence of Aivo Peterson, who was convicted of treason in district court, by two years.

BENGALURU: Former minister and Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni, who was convicted in a murder case, pleaded before the special ...

The state rested its case in Tanner Horner's punishment phase. Horner pleaded guilty to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand in ...

Diplomats agreed to “leverage the EU’s role to sustain, and strengthen structured” counter-terrorism and security partnerships with regional actors such as Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey, a second EU ...

Julius Malema's five-year prison sentence for a celebratory gunshot raises questions about justice and political persecution ...

The EFF leader will appeal his five-year prison sentence after a court upheld his conviction for firing a rifle at a ...

We verify how split sentencing works and why someone might serve far less time in prison than their sentence suggests.

Authoritarian governments that reach across borders to persecute their own citizens did so at a greater rate last year, particularly in Southeast Asia and East Africa, a human rights group charged ...

A Huntington Beach man is facing what amounts to a life sentence after a jury found he repeatedly targeted young children, ...

A Randall County jury has sentenced Adrian Guadalupe Guzman to the maximum prison term of 20 years after finding him guilty ...