Jessica Lunsford Killer Sentenced to Die
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INVERNESS, Fla.  -- A convicted sex offender was sentenced Friday to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive in his yard.
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A teen killer who told the parole board that he regretted letting eyewitnesses survive was executed Wednesday for a shotgun murder during a &#36;15 robbery.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the murder trial of a sex offender accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford from her Florida home and burying her alive in trash bags.
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Jurors on Friday sentenced a convicted sex offender to death for killing University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin, whose body was found in a Minnesota ravine nearly five months after she disappeared.
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A convicted serial killer was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1974 slaying of a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student.
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A German woman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for killing eight of her newborn babies during the 1990s.
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The husband of the late state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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A man is jailed for 15 years after admitting the murder of a man who died five months after being beaten.
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Physical evidence, including DNA from blood and fingerprints, will link a convicted sex offender to the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday as the man's trial opened.
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SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole.    Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is in U.S...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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Most potential jurors said Monday they knew few details of last year&#039;s kidnapping and slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Citrus County or about her accused killer, John Evander Couey.
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BAGHDAD - A US soldier was sentenced to three years in jail for the murder of a wounded Iraqi teenager in Baghdad in August, the US military said on Saturday.
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John Evander Couey could face the death penalty after being found guilty Wednesday of murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was abducted two years ago from her home in Homosassa Springs, Florida. She was found buried nearly a month later within sight of her home. The young girl had been raped before she was buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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The husband of former state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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hers to prison terms of up to 10 years on Wednesday for the deadly attack in 2000 against the Norfolk-based destroyer Cole. The convictions were the first
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A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.