'Passion' Confessor Sentenced to 75 Yrs for Murder
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A Texas man who confessed to murder  after seeing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was  sentenced to 75 years in prison on Friday night for strangling  his girlfriend to death.
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A man who told people their loved ones had been killed on holiday is jailed for six months.
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A "self-styled vigilante" who doused an innocent man in petrol and set fire to him because he thought he was a selling heroin was today jailed for 24 years.
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A Briton whose US murder conviction was quashed after 18 years on death row has spoken of his anger.
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A woman accused of offering her younger lover a share of her husband's multimillion-dollar estate if he would kill the 69-year-old was convicted Friday of murder-for-hire and other charges.
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A man acquitted of a murder 17 years ago finally admits his guilt after a change in the double jeopardy law.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. - A 79-year-old retiree who tussled with a man half his age over the man's foul language in a restaurant was sentenced to probation - but outside of that, he's been treated more like a hero than a criminal.
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Posed with victim after bloody stabbing A Glasgow man who murdered a 24-year-old by stabbing him 80 times with a knife and then "went on to pose for a mobile phone picture alongside the victim's body" will be sentenced next month.â¦
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A 70-year-old French bus driver is jailed for life for murdering seven young women in the 1970s.
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A man who beat a 75-year-old widow unconscious in her own home will spent at least eight years in jail.
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The convicted murderer of a millionaire banker received the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison Tuesday at an emotional hearing where the victim's two children denounced the killer for stealing their childhoods.
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A Briton who spent 18 years in jail in Pakistan has told of the moment he was sentenced to death.Comment
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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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A Belfast man who murdered his former girlfriend has his jail term increased from 10 to 15 years.
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A Russian supermarket worker branded "the chessboard murderer" was found guilty on Wednesday of killing 48 people after he confessed in court that the first time he took a life was like falling in love.
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New York's oldest prisoner Â an 89-year-old former heart surgeon convicted of killing his wife more than 30 years ago Â has been granted parole.
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One of the two men accused of the murder of at least 19 women and children in India makes a confession.