Brutality suit seen likely in pepper-pellet death
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Boston police will almost certainly face a brutality lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Victoria Snelgrove
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether a jury unfairly sentenced a Pennsylvania man to death on a 17-year-old murder conviction in a case expected to clarify death penalty standards for attorney conduct and jury instructions.
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Media & professional: Â· Unlawful killing verdict on untended child who chokedÂ· Police to reconsider bringing charges
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Families of victims and offenders weigh in on pending Supreme Court case.
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WASHINGTON â The Supreme Court on Monday heard starkly different descriptions of Kentuckyâs method of putting people to death, with a lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserting there is an unacceptable risk of agony and a lawyer for the state saying nothing could be further from the truth.
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A U.S. Army National Guard soldier will be tried on murder charges with the death penalty possible in a case in which he is accused of blowing up two superior officers in Iraq last year, the Army said on Monday.
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After an H.P. employee was raped and killed by a driver the company employed, Indiaâs highest court may force international firms to do more to guard local workersâ safety.
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An independent panel headed by former US Attorney Donald K. Stern will investigate the death of a college student who was shot by police using pepper pellet guns to subdue rowdy Red Sox fans after the team won the American League pennant.
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A murderer was scheduled to die Thursday in what would be the nation's first execution since the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
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By Donovan Slack and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | October 27, 2004. Two officers who fired pepper-pellet guns near where a 21-year-old college student was fatally shot last week were not trained to use the
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Action on a jury&#39;s recommendation to kill Scott Peterson by lethal injection for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, could be decades away in the state that has more than 600 people on death row.
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Military prosecutors plan to file murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges against seven Marines and a Navy corpsman in the shooting death of an Iraqi man in April, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
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Mother of 15-year-old boy who died when he was restrained by guards is considering legal action.
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A Marine lieutenant has been charged with a military count of premeditated murder for shooting two Iraqis during a search for a terrorist hideout, and he could face the death penalty  if he is found guilty, his attorney said Thursday.
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Three Marines from Camp Pendleton will face courts-martial on murder and kidnapping charges in the death of an Iraqi man in the town of Hamdania, the Marine Corps said Monday.
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The family of a boy who died in an E.coli outbreak want a manslaughter charge against a butcher reconsidered.
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By DOUGLASS CROUSE, STAFF WRITER  Chemist Geetha Angara died in a dangerous work environment that her employers knew about but failed to correct, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.