Deneilo Bradshaw, 24, was spared death by lethal injection for the murder of Rachel Hoffman, as jurors indicated Friday that although they believed he was guilty of first-degree murder, he instead should spend the rest of his life in prison. ...more

December 19, 2009

A former car wash worker will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the murder of a confidential police informant during a botched drug sting. ...more

December 18, 2009

Texas and other states that lead the nation in executions are sentencing many fewer inmates to death, a trend that slowly is reducing the death row population in the United States, a report from an anti-capital punishment group says. ...more

December 18, 2009

Seven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington area to match the terrorist attacks of the year before. ...more

November 9, 2009

A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. ...more

January 9, 2009

A former "Sopranos" actor has been acquitted of a second-degree murder charge in the 2005 shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 22, 2008

He was the last in line for a first appearance. The mood in the courtroom dropped from serious to somber. ...more

August 5, 2008

He was the last in line for a first appearance. ...more

August 5, 2008

The Rev. Howard Douglas Porter says he tried to brake before his truck plunged into an irrigation ditch, and that he made a desperate effort to save his elderly passenger from drowning in the mire. ...more

May 30, 2008

The lives of Richard and Kathleen Ross were taken in the middle of the night, their heads crushed with a baseball bat gripped in the hands of the son whom they loved. ...more

November 17, 2007