Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial – his fourth – in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 20, 2009

Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

A West Tampa man was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted today of killing his ex-girlfriend so she couldn't testify against him in a domestic violence hearing. ...more

March 19, 2009

A jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday before finding Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday repealing New Mexico's death penalty, making it the second state to ban executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. ...more

March 18, 2009

Jurors have begun deliberating whether Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. took a pair of teenagers to a dirt road two years ago and shot them both in the head. ...more

March 18, 2009

An Austrian who fathered seven children with a daughter he held captive for 24 years refused to speak to her for years, coming into the squalid cellar only to rape her, often in front of the youngsters, a prosecutor said Monday. ...more

March 17, 2009

The New Mexico Legislature has voted to repeal the death penalty. ...more

March 13, 2009

The man charged with killing Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Nicholas Sottile pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder, three days before jury selection was to begin in his trial. ...more

March 13, 2009

Plans to begin the first-degree murder trial of Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. today went by the wayside as jury selection dragged on for a third day. ...more

March 11, 2009