Sweden's Top Court Confirms Life for Lindh Killer
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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New Yorkâs highest court tossed out the death sentence imposed on a man for his role in the murders of five workers at a Wendyâs restaurant in Queens.
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Sweden's highest court on Friday wrapped up its trial of the man who killed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh last year, with prosecutors demanding that he be put away behind bars for life.
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STOCKHOLM Christer Pettersson, who was convicted in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme but acquitted on appeal, died Wednesday, hospital officials said.
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Investigators said a handgun recovered from the bottom of a Swedish lake is one of the most important finds in the 20-year-old search for the killer of Prime Minister Olof Palme &#151; an unexpected discovery that could breathe new life into a troubled investigation.
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A court on Thursday cleared a man accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing, Northern Ireland's worst atrocity in three decades of violence.
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The killer of five people at a Wendyâs in 2000 will get life without parole after New Yorkâs highest court refused again to reinstate the state death penalty.
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The jury in the Scott Peterson murder trial reached a verdict this morning over whether Peterson should live the rest of life in prison or be put to death for the murders of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son.
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Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard.
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After months of legal wrangling, the Swedish Supreme Court today overturned an appeals court ruling and said the convicted and confessed killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his sentence in prison.
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The convicted murderer of Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh wants a new lawyer for his upcoming appeal hearing, Swedish media reported on Tuesday.
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In a final statement in court, a man convicted of killing 48 people in one of Russia's worst murder sprees said Thursday he was "almost God," with the power to decide who lives and who dies.
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Nearly 200 inmates serving time for murder, rape and kidnapping will be eligible for immediate release following a ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court that some life sentences should be considered 45-year terms.
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A rapist who killed college student Dru Sjodin six months after being released from prison was formally sentenced to death Thursday in a case that led to tougher sex-offender laws.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin, dubbed the âBittsa Maniacâ in Russian media, was found guilty today of murdering 48 people.
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Sweden&#39;s Supreme Court Thursday issued an irreversible life sentence to Mijailo Mijailovic for fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
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A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a man convicted of murder after DNA evidence pointed to another suspect.