In 2011, when then-Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently uncovered news has "delighted" and "energized" Krisanne ...

Sentencing will happen Friday for the man who ambushed and murdered Sacramento Police Department Officer Tara O'Sullivan.

The state will not pursue the death penalty for a man convicted of killing two people at a bowling alley in northeast Nebraska.

Two suspects in a 2021 home invasion murder will not be facing the death penalty after being indicted by a grand jury Friday.

3 charged in murder of USM football player MJ Daniels sentenced Friday. Shaw was sentenced for second-degree murder. Green was sentenced on a charge of first-degree murder.

DENVER — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday ...

He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison for that assault. His sentence in the Oregon sexual assault will be served consecutively to the sentence in the 2021 case.

The man convicted of murdering Central High School cheerleader Emma Walker has filed a petition asking the court to reconsider his sentence.

Suspect Bryan Kohberger in the murders of four University of Idaho students might avoid the death penalty if convicted because of leaked evidence, a former prosecutor says.

A driver will serve more than a decade in prison for her role in the high-speed chase that injured an officer and killed a police dog.

A Riviera Beach mother was arrested Friday following the death of her 7-year-old daughter earlier this year.