Dad's anguish as child killer sentenced
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John Evander Couey was sentenced to death Friday for abducting, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive. Her father said: "I am grateful for the outcome... but it ain't bringing my daughter back." Jessica was snatched from her bed in Homosassa, Florida in 2005.
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Five boys sentenced for stoning a father who collapsed and died from a heart attack have been released.
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The mother of a child killed by a speeding motorist dubs his five-year jail term a "travesty".
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A top U.S. scientist known as the "father of gene therapy" was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in prison for molesting a young girl after his victim told the court that the sex abuse nearly drove her to suicide.
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Five boys are given custodial sentences for stoning a father who collapsed and died from a heart attack.
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Five boys who hurled stones, wood and abuse at a father playing cricket with his son in Kent, triggering a fatal heart attack, have been jailed for two years each.
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The Court of Appeal increases the jail term of a man who murdered his baby son in a bakery.
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A man who admitted beating his aunt and uncle to death after a family row is jailed for at least 25 years.
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Relatives of a man killed by gangs terrorising his community, say they are bitter at the punishment of his teenage attacker.
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Christopher Pittman, who was 12 at the time he shot his grandparents, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
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A man at the centre of a row about prison overcrowding is sentenced to four years for child sex offences.
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An Indian court has sentenced the son of an influential politician to life behind bars for the murder of a young model, a crime he could have got away with had there not been a public outcry.
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A woman is sentenced to nine years for killing her daughters and two teenagers in a car crash.
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A father who repeatedly raped and sexually abused one of his daughters is jailed for 17 years.
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After a father is jailed for killing his daughter, human rights campaigners say "honour" crimes are increasing.
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Three teenagers are jailed for life for kicking a father-of-three to death outside his home.