The bench observed the medical board found the appellants psychiatrically normal, but the jail medical records showed both convicts were suffering from ailments.

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, as part of a series of pardons and clemencies issued this week. Hoover, 74, was convicted of ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces up to 20 years in prison, despite being acquitted on the most serious counts. It likely won't be that high. Prosecutors said the guidelines call for around 5 years and 3. The ...

After nearly three hours of deliberation, the jury sentenced Jeff Doyal Robertson to the maximum sentence for the April shooting of Canton's high school football coach. Robertson recieved 20 years for ...

A Florida music instructor who unleashed an unexpected verbal tirade at prosecutors, the media and the federal government at her court hearing Friday, has been sentenced to six years in prison in her ...

Veteran college football announcer Gary Danielson's final goodbye was cut off mid-sentence by CBS on Wednesday after nearly ...

Advocates called the initial punishment unusually harsh. A truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a fatal accident in Colorado has been resentenced to 10 years after an outcry from ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has announced plans to appeal the sentence imposed in a sexual assault case involving an eight-year-old girl, citing concerns that the punishment does not ...

The Sentence: It's such an unassuming title (and one that sounds like it belongs to a writing manual); but, Louise Erdrich's latest is a deceptively big novel, various in its storytelling styles; ...

Florida 19th Judicial Circuit judge Sherwood "Chip" Bauer gave a black man 26 years in prison and a white man two years' time served, for the same crime, in the same circumstances. The two men pleaded ...