Kevorkian Freed After Years in Prison
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Jack Kevorkian, who brought the debate over physician-assisted suicide into the spotlight, stepped out of prison having pledged not to assist anyone else.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- His sodomy conviction overturned by Malaysia's highest court, Anwar Ibrahim was set free yesterday, six years to the day after the onetime heir apparent to the country's premiership was fired during a divisive fight with his political mentor.
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WASHINGTON - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal on Monday in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.
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A Leeds man released from a Pakistani jail after 18 years on death row talks about his experiences.
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A man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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ADELAIDE, Australia -- Convicted terror supporter David Hicks is freed from an Australian prison after completing a U.S. imposed sentence.
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If it weren't for DNA testing, Willie "Pete" Williams would still be rotting away in a Georgia prison. Instead, he was released after serving nearly 22 years for a rape he didn't commit. The Innocence Project works to free others who are wrongfully jailed in American prisons.
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MADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 -- A former child-care provider sent to prison more than a decade ago in the fatal shaking of a baby was freed Wednesday, six days after an appeals court ruled that the latest research into shaken baby syndrome might prove her innocence.
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Afghan authorities have released from jail an American imprisoned in 2004 for running a private jail and illegally detaining and torturing people in a freelance war on terror.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6 -- A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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An octogenarian cleric jailed for 10 years by a UN court for Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been released, becoming the tribunal's first convict to be freed after serving his sentence.
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A Chinese journalist working for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while  working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending  a controversial prison term that highlighted the country&#39;s  tough media controls.
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Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled and released from a Michigan prison in June, a state official said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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WASHINGTON Senator John Kerry says his doctors have told him he&#39;s cured after a bout with prostate cancer almost two years ago.
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Four years after he entered a drug rehabilitation center, Robert Garrigus is able to reflect on past drug and alcohol abuse.