A Russian court has ruled that a soldier who killed his wife should not go to prison, the mitigating circumstance being his participation in the war against Ukraine. Source: Telegram-based news outlet ...

In late August, the Supreme Court of Florida affirmed the denial of postconviction relief and habeas petition of Tina Lasonya Brown. Ms. Brown was one of three people who kidnapped and killed ...

In India, courts impose the death penalty only in the "rarest of rare" cases, as established in the landmark Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) case, by balancing aggravating circumstances ...

In this age of zero-tolerance policies, the Chicago Public School’s system is “one of the harshest in the land,” attorney Steven Drizin writes in Zero Tolerance, a new collection of essays on the ...

Brian Nichols' life sentence without parole has provoked angry reactions from many people. They argue that, given the heinousness of his crimes, if anyone deserves the death penalty Nichols does. But ...

Bob Baffert caught a break. He was judged on what could be documented rather than what might turn up later. The Hall of Fame trainer was spared a suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ...

Pennsylvania is one of 32 states which allows for a death sentence. The only crime for which you can be sentenced to death under Pennsylvania state law is first degree murder. There are actually only ...