Minn. Woman, Husband Acquitted in Mexico
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An American woman and her Mexican husband who said they were tortured by police and forced to confess to killing a Mexican girl were acquitted Friday of the murder charges.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.  -- A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
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A retired teacher is found guilty of the murder of his wife in Cumbria, nearly 30 years ago.
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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Prosecutors in the northern city of Chihuahua on Monday appealed the acquittal of Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi and two of her backup singers.
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A jury on Friday convicted a woman of first-degree murder in the slaying of her Air Force officer husband so that she could be with her Army lover.
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A woman was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter, but convicted of two lesser counts, in the death of her 2-year-old granddaughter, who was mauled by two Rottweilers while visiting her home.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - Accused murderer Scott  Peterson appeared ready to flee to Mexico when the bodies of  his wife and unborn son washed out of San Francisco Bay, a  police detective testified as the trial prosecution rested.
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Description: A jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of first-degree murder. Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.
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Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan and three co-defendants were found guilty of a minor violation and cleared of more serious charges on Monday for blocking the entrance to the U.S. mission to the United Nations during a protest in March.
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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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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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Woman found guilty of attempting to murder her husband by putting anti-freeze in his curry
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A Tanzanian accused of conspiracy  in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam was  acquitted on Wednesday.
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The conviction of an American citizen on charges of rape and murder, and his subsequent release, has put Nicaraguaâs justice system on trial.
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LONDON -- On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial. She was one of several British mothers who lost one or more children in infancy and were convicted of murder.