A mentally ill man, who had been on Ohio’s death row for two decades, saw his death sentence thrown out Monday under a recent state law that says people who have a serious mental illness are ...

OTTAWA — The one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday. In a 5-4 decision, the top court ...

A judge has rejected an appeal from a Monessen man who has spent 50 years in prison for the 1973 murders of two young children and the rape of their mother. Attorneys for John Veltre Jr., 69, claimed ...

BATES COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri man faces multiple life sentences after he was accused of sexually trafficking and sexually abusing a child. The Bates County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Office says ...

Former Congressman George Santos was released from prison late Friday night, just hours after he reportedly learned that his sentence had been commuted by watching the news. The New York Republican ...

The 12-year-old boy was 4 when his little brother died at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend. “When I was younger, he used to hit me and my brothers a lot,” he told a judge Monday. “Even though it’s ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Fifteen members of a Ukrainian militia group were convicted by a Russian military court on Friday of taking part in "a terrorist organisation" and sentenced ...

A Japanese man accused of abusing and killing cats on the Mediterranean island of Malta has been sentenced to two years in prison, local media reported, with the punishment including a 40-year ban on ...

The possible prison sentences, which can be appealed to Iran's Supreme Court within 20 days, come as Iran pressures France to release an Iranian national. An Iranian court sentenced two French ...

Iranian authorities hand down two French nationals lengthy prison sentences after convicting them on multiple charges, including spying for Israel, the judiciary says. The judiciary’s Mizan Online ...