Rapist who cut throat gets life
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A handyman who raped and tried to kill a woman who was walking her dog is given a life sentence.
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A death row inmate whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court banning execution of the mentally retarded has had his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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A serial rapist was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison and began to sob after listening to some of his 13 victims testify about how the attacks had traumatized them.
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A woman who admitted strangling her four young children in an Indiana basement was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for each child's death.
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A former fashion magazine writer found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman after posing as a firefighter to enter her New York apartment was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Monday.
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A former Harvard graduate student was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for stabbing to death a teenager who made fun of him.
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A man who stomped another man to death in what prosecutors called an anti-Semitic attack outside a St. Louis diner was sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty.
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A County Tyrone man is sentenced to life imprisonment for the manslaughter of a 76-year-old neighbour.
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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. Douglas Eugene Wilson, 45, pleaded guilty Monday to possession of contraband and was sentenced by District Judge Thomas Kane.
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A teenager who stabbed and battered to death a boy of 14 is sentenced to life in prison.
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A rapist is jailed after a jury hears how his victim locked herself in a room and sent a text message plea for help.
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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced a man to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl who was snatched from her bed and buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A woman who fatally stabbed her millionaire psychotherapist husband, whom she met as a 14-year-old girl in treatment, was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for murder.
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A millionaire paedophile who once boasted of beating his own "record" of abuse, is given a life sentence.