DENVER — Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting on Thursday rejected an offer from suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for av...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa's governor has called a rare public hearing Wednesday to gather input on whether he should free an inmate widely credited...

Convicted killer Michael Hooper's heart stopped beating in an Oklahoma death chamber from lethal injection on Aug. 14. The country's next executions h...

This debate will go on, but the delusional thinking in the death penalty equation is based on the logic of deterring vicious criminals from killing people. It's not. As I've stated, proponents would love to make this claim but they can't. There are simply too many variables involved to support it.

Most adolescents understand intellectually that to kill another human being is wrong. That is precisely why we condemn it and punish those who commit it. But because of the lesser culpability or blameworthiness of young offenders, the punishment should not be as harsh as it is for adults.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sara Kruzan was 17 when she was sentenced to die in prison for killing and robbing a pimp in a Riverside motel. Now, at 32, Kruzan ha...

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A man accused of snatching a teenager on her way home from school in 1967 and holding her captive for days in his basement before kill...

CARTHAGE, N.C. -- Robert Stewart showed the same lack of emotion when a jury found him guilty of murder Saturday as witnesses say he displayed when he...

BOISE, Idaho — A man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for torturing his girlfriend's 8-year-old son, then killing him and trying to cover ...

GEORGETOWN, Del. — Former Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley will spend the rest of his life in prison for committing horrific acts of sexual ab...

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Los Angeles allowed reports indicating inmates might have been wrongly convicted to languish for years, saying ...