Texas woman who won reprieve maintains her innocence
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UNDATED Governor Rick Perry says giving Frances Newton a 120-day reprieve from her execution was the responsible thing to do. The reprieve Perry granted Wednesday two hours before Newton was to be put to death
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A government witness who testified  against Martha Stewart was found not guilty on Tuesday of lying  at the trial of the homemaking icon.
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A San Jose girl who was kidnapped and repeatedly sexually assaulted continued testifying today against her alleged abductor, telling a remarkable story of bravery and quick thinking.
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A woman accused of fleeing with her daughter to Delaware 14 years ago in one of the nation's longest-running missing child cases was acquitted Wednesday of parental kidnapping.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 21--A woman convicted of killing her husband will stay out of jail for four months while she undergoes hip surgery.   Campbell County Circuit Court Judge J.S.
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A woman accused of stalking movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones has pleaded innocent at her arraignment in Los Angeles, E! Online reported Thursday.
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Tearful testimony focuses on the alleged murder victim's last day before she disappeared.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday  upheld a stay of execution for convicted serial killer Michael  Ross and sent his case back to a lower federal court to  determine if a public defender may intervene in the process.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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The state rested its case against Andrea Yates on Wednesday after a medical examiner testified that bruises on her children&#039;s bodies indicated they struggled as she slowly drowned them in the bathtub.
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The Texas parole board has recommended delaying the execution of a woman accused of killing her husband and two young children, leaving the chance for a reprieve in the hands of the governor.
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A state appeals court Friday refused to vacate the murder conviction of ex-Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry, who died while serving a life term for the deaths of four black girls in a 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
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Officer in charge when innocent Brazilian was shot dead insists her decisions on the day were correct.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a  rare stay of execution to a Houston woman just hours before she  was scheduled to die on Wednesday night by lethal injection for  the 1987 murder of her husband and two children.
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ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Lisa Montgomery whispered her answers to a federal judge Thursday as a packed courtroom collectively focused on the woman accused of kidnapping resulting in death.
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Russia's Olympic shot put champion Irina  Korzhanenko, stripped of her gold medal after a drugs test,  said Tuesday she was determined to keep her medal because she  is innocent.