Victims' kin furious at R.I. sentencing
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Enraged that no one will see more than four years in prison for the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people, victims' relatives vented their fury Friday at a judge as he accepted plea deals from the club's owners in the name of avoiding a graphic, heart-wrenching trial.
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WARWICK, Rhode Island  - Families of victims of a   U.S. nightclub fire that killed 100 people expressed outrage on   Friday at a plea deal under which one of the club's owners will   serve four years in jail and the other serves no prison time.
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Relatives of the Virginia Tech shooting victims are demanding representation on a gubernatorial panel studying the killings, saying in a letter Monday they feel "ostracized." They are also questioning the status of a memorial fund that has generated millions of dollars.
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Laci Peterson&#39;s mother burst into tears and shouted at her former son-in-law while testifying during the sentencing phase of his trial Tuesday afternoon.
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Woman boasted to relatives that she had arranged for her daughter-in-law to be strangled.
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The owners of the Station nightclub in Rhode Island are going to   pay, but according to some, the punishment's not dear enough.
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Derrick Todd Lee already has been convicted of one of the seven murder charges against him. But it is his second trial, beginning Monday, that counts for many grieving relatives of the women who were killed &#151; because it carries a possible death penalty.
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A plea agreement had been reached in May between prosecutors and the former Purdue Pharma executives, but affected families are urging prison time.
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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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Mary Winkler convinced a jury she was physically and emotionally abused by her preacher husband before she shot him to death. Now, after a short jail sentence, she is trying to persuade the courts to let her have her children back.
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Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical weapons, artillery barrages and mass executions two decades ago.
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As the community struggled to comprehend the killerÂs actions, families prepared for funerals.
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An Indonesian court decision to sentence   four young Australians to death for heroin smuggling,   overturning their earlier jail terms, sparked an angry   political reaction in Australia on Thursday.
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Former crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday after relatives of some of the 334 people whose bodies he left to decay on his property confronted him on the stand about why he did it.
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Why a record fine against has the left the families affected by the drug unsatisfied.
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The family of a mother and her two children who were murdered pay tribute to "the heart of their family."
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WARWICK, Rhode Island  - Families of victims of a   U.S. nightclub fire that killed 100 people expressed outrage on   Friday at a plea deal under which one of the club's owners will   serve four years in jail and the other serve no prison time.