Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

A Georgia couple that pleaded guilty to sexually abusing their two adopted sons will now spend 100 years in prison without ...

Of the 40 people on federal death row, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 to life in prison without the possibility of parole ...

Defense attorneys claim a witness lied when he said Keller robbed and killed music and game store owner Ollie Jones on the ...

Video of the deadly assault on Robert L. Brooks was “horrific,” “disturbing” and “devastating,” a lawyer for his family said ...

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...

As she sentenced him, U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon told Keith Duane McIntosh that he was 'unable to live in civilized society ...

Fabio Ochoa arrived at Bogota's El Dorado airport on a deportation flight on Monday, wearing a grey sweatshirt and carrying ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this ...

Authorities searched the house from which the man fled and said they found a Glock Model 23 .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol ...

Eugene Spector, who was already serving a 3½-year sentence in Russia for bribery, received the additional sentence after ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the firing of more than a dozen prison staffers over a beating that resulted in the ...