A Monroe County judge Friday handed down a prison sentence for a woman accused of buying a firearm and leaving it with a Palmer Township man who later kidnapped his son and killed a Pennsylvania State ...

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Five suspended sentences cap year of mounting difficulty for press Reporters Without Borders today condemned the suspended prison sentences handed ...

Virginia Democrats are proposing, for a third time, legislation to turn criminal punishment into a license to reoffend. Sentencing criminals requires consideration of a few things: danger to society ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 553 into law May 14. The bill sets a 20-year limit on suspended sentences for sex offenders and those convicted of deliberate homicide. Violent crimes now have a ...

Will the two-year sentence imposed on former Gov. Bob McDonnell become “a cap” for the punishment that his wife, Maureen, will receive when she appears before the same federal judge next month? Kelly ...

LOCKPORT -- The attorney for Shawn M. Zimmerman said Thursday that the accused home invader might be willing to plead guilty if the judge commits to a cap on possible prison time. Robert Viola said ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the stabbing death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts three years ago. Judge Joel ...