Mar. 23—The state Supreme Court has upheld a man's conviction for repeatedly molesting a girl in Windsor Locks in 2013, when she was 9, but has held his sentence illegal and ordered that he be ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The state Supreme Court has reversed the death penalty imposed on a ...

Judges with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and death sentence of a 52-year-old woman convicted of capital murder in Amarillo 26 years ago. The judges found that ...

HOUSTON COUNTY, Ala. (WDHN) — A Dothan man convicted of the 1981 murder of a gas station clerk has had his conviction reversed. Nathaniel Dennis, of Dothan, was arrested in 2012 and charged with ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that any fact increasing a sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be alleged in the indictment and proven beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury has been applied in ...

Farai Chideya runs through the day's headlines of news affecting black life and culture. Thursday's topics include the reversal of a controversial prison sentence in Georgia and Fisk University being ...