Gov. Gavin Newsom should be wary of blanket commutation, which substitutes one individual's judgment for the deliberative ...

By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York Times. It seems there is nothing these ...

Governor Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that she has commuted the death sentence of Toforest Onesha Johnson, claiming the ...

A BERKSHIRE man released from prison after judges ruled he had been sentenced in error says it is "amazing" to finally be free after spending 20 years behind bars.

The Prosecution Service requested a five-year prison sentence for Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon of Sarang Jeil Church, who was ...

A 21-year-old man received the maximum amount of jail time for repeatedly raping a teenage girl. Lionardo Rojas Jr., of ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted Toforest Johnson's death sentence, but his attorneys say the fight for a new trial and full ...

Akeriya Terry stepped out of her classroom and cried after learning her father, Toforest Johnson, would no longer face ...

A daughter whose father has been on death row nearly as long as she’s been alive says she feels as though someone is finally ...

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcomes the sentence of life imprisonment plus an additional 13 years imposed by the Polokwane High Court on Tatenda Sithole (29), a Zimbabwean national, ...

An East Texas jury found a former Sunday school teacher and Prohibition agent guilty of murder on Oct. 19, 1923.