67 h. ago Mexican cartel leader’s son is sentenced to life in prison for role in major drug trafficking plot

The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss has been sentenced in Washington to life in prison for his own leadership role in one of the country’s largest and most violent narcotics trafficking organizations

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3 d. ago Man sentenced to life in prison for killing 2 Kansas sheriff’s deputies

A man was sentenced to two life sentences for killing two Kansas sheriff’s deputies in 2018 as they were trying to move him between a courthouse and a jail

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5 d. ago Lori Vallow says heavenly premonition has her convinced she will be ‘exonerated’ for murdering her kids, in first interview from prison

Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced in 2023 to life in prison for the murders of her two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, and conspiring to kill her husband Chad Daybell’s former wife, Tammy Daybell

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6 d. ago Woman who claimed she had cancer murdered husband with lethal injection to cover up her Ponzi scheme

Former pharmacist Natalie Cochran was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Michael Cochran by administering him fatal dose of insulin

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9 d. ago Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man convicted for 1991 murder

Kay Ivey says Robin ‘Rocky’ Myers will serve life in prison after jury claimed lack of physical evidence at crime sceneThe Alabama governor, Kay Ivey, on Friday commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case.Ivey said Myers, who was facing execution this spring, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. She noted that was the sentence jurors at his 1994 trial had recommended. A judge overruled that recommendation and imposed a death sentence, a maneuver that has since been outlawed in Alabama, according to the human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Alabama governor commutes death row inmate Rocky Myers' sentence to life in prison

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case

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1 week ago Terror plotter who planned Hyde Park shooting loses appeal against sentence

Edward Little was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 24 years in January 2024.

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2 w. ago Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

Nathan Hochman casts doubt on sexual abuse claims but declines to say whether he would support resentencingLos Angeles’s new tough-on-crime district attorney made clear on Friday he is taking a much less sympathetic view of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s case, though his office has not yet announced what position it will take on the issue of whether the brothers should be resentenced.Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man charged in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing to appear in Manhattan court

Luigi Mangione faces state-level murder and terrorism charges, as well as federal countsLuigi Mangione is scheduled to appear in Manhattan state court on Friday in the 4 December killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, 26, faces state-level murder and terrorism charges, as well as federal counts, for allegedly gunning down Thompson in a brazen street assassination.Mangione has maintained his innocence. The state case against him carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, while his federal case could carry a possible death penalty. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Night in pub ends with man on run, another in prison and teen facing a life sentence

One victim was left with a punctured lung - with the violence spilling out onto an illuminated dancefloor

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2 w. ago Native American activist released from prison will be welcomed to North Dakota home

Supporters plan to welcome Native American activist Leonard Peltier back to his North Dakota community after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents

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3 w. ago Man sentenced to life in prison for rape and murder of Danielle McLaughlin

The family of the Donegal woman travelled to India for the verdict.

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