The state's highest court upheld a law transferring more control of death penalty cases from local district attorneys to the ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men ...

A proposed bill aims to give individuals serving lengthy prison sentences an opportunity to reduce their sentence.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. Peltier was freed Tuesday morning, ...

On his last full working day in office, President Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 ...

Criminals caught with gadgets - including signal jammers - used to steal keyless cars could face up to five years in prison ...

One of Joe Biden's last official acts as president was commuting the 30-year sentence of a Canton man with a history of violent outbursts in court.

The commutation, praised by advocates who say Peltier was a political prisoner, prompted criticism from some who say Peltier ...

A California law that was supposed to provide safeguards against excessive prison sentences by giving juries the power to ...

A local nonprofit responding after the state reported a record-breaking number of domestic violence homicides in ...

Opinion: If Sutton is sent back to prison, it will be the failure of a justice system that refuses to follow its laws.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home ...