U.S. Death Sentences Hit 30-Year Low in 2003
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The number of U.S. state and federal  inmates sent to prison under death sentences dropped to a  30-year-low in 2003 as they declined for the third consecutive  year, the U.S. Justice Department said Sunday.
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A record 7 million people -- one in every 32 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year,  a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.
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Americans were robbed and victimized by gun violence at greater rates last year than the year before, even though overall violent and property crime reached a 32-year low, the Justice Department said Sunday.
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Violent and property crime rates in the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years during 2003, the US Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty yesterday of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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It was the third annual decline, though it was smaller than those seen in the previous two years. &quot;Nearly 7.4-million people reported just over $30.
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Killings at U.S. schools have not risen in recent years, despite some highly publicized crimes, and are far lower than in the early 1990s, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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Nearly six and a half years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is preparing to prosecute six of the men it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts Â not to mention justice Â remain a long way off in the death-penalty cases.
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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Violent and property crime rates in  the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years  during 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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The number of terrorism cases brought by the Justice Department has fallen sharply since 2002, according to a new study.
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
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The number of convicts imprisoned with death sentences dropped in 2003, which is helping to provoke the third straight annual decline in the nation's death row population, according to data released Sunday.
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Traffic deaths in the United States fell to their lowest total in five years in 2006, and the rate of deaths per miles traveled dropped to a record low, a federal safety official said Monday.
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IONE, California  - Convicted murderer Greg Rollo knows the brutality of life behind bars after 31 years in a prison. But he says life has grown much worse since he was moved to a triple-bunk bed in an open gym with 199 others.