Killer stalker's longer sentence
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A judge decides Stephen Griffiths, who stalked and murdered is ex-girlfriend, should spent at least 15 years in jail.
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Probation for attack:  A Glendale Heights man was placed on probation for 30 months Tuesday after pleading guilty to aggravated battery.
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The Georgia parole board on Monday granted a 90-day stay of execution for a convicted police killer whose case had drawn pleas for clemency amid claims he might not be guilty.
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PRAGUE- Ukrainian citizen Roman Tsyurak, 32, and his compatriot Vasil were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for the murder of a Belarussian worker, the Prague Supreme Court ruled in an ...
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The 16 minutes it took Christopher Newton to die once chemicals began flowing into his veins was the longest stretch that any of the state's inmates executed since 1999 has endured, an Associated Press review shows.
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NEW CASTLE, Pa. - A man convicted of terrorizing three teenagers by repeatedly calling and asking them about their feet has been sentenced to nine months to almost two years in prison.
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As Alexander Pichuzkin goes on trial, observers are waiting to find out if the  self-confessed multiple killer achieved his goal: becoming the grandmaster of murder
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ATTICA, NY -- John Lennon&#39;s killer will stay in prison for at least two years after being denied parole yesterday for the third time because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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John Lennon&#39;s killer will remain in jail for at least two more years after being denied parole because of the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; he showed in gunning down the former Beatle in 1980.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress, and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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A judge ordered Wednesday that 33-year-old Dawnette Knight should be tried on a felony count of stalking and 24 felony counts of making criminal threats.
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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) - The strange tale of an Alberta politician who faked a stalking complaint ended Friday as a sentencing judge heard how her personal demons had led her into drug addiction and a suicide attempt.
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Governor commutes sentence of man who was scheduled to die via lethal injection this evening.
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ATTICA, NY John Lennon&#39;s killer will remain in prison for at least two more years after being denied parole today. The New York state parole board cited the &quot;extreme malicious intent&quot; Mark David Chapman showed in gunning down Lennon.
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Prosecutors in the case of Madeleine McCann have applied to a judge to keep files in the case against the official suspects for longer.
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A confessed serial killer was put away for the rest of his life Tuesday after being convicted in a murder case brought by Michigan prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison less two years from now.