PROVIDENCE – State lawmakers are once again weighing a proposal that would allow people serving long sentences to ask a judge for a “second look” at their punishment after 10 years. Matching ...

Convicted child killer Adam Montgomery is asking for a review of his sentence for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony. Montgomery, 34, was sentenced to 56 years to life in state prison in ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in mid-February granted a petition asking it to consider whether the mandatory sentence for murder in the second degree — life without parole — is unconstitutional under ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Most of the burglaries hit in early 1995, break-ins at Rancho Santa Fe homes. The thief made off with pricey pieces of jewelry. James Sotero Riviera was eventually arrested. In ...

While one of us works with a religious organization and the other is a public defender, we have both become intimately familiar with the system of criminal punishment in Michigan. We each spend much ...

Forty-one former members of the Jewish police ? the Wetzlar Camp were released without bail today pending individual re? of the six-month sentences imposed on them last week. Their release came ?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Victoria Cisneros‘s workspace in the Denver District Attorney’s Office is already filling with boxes of old court files. For the last five months, the ...

Along with the other changes to death sentencing procedures in recent years, the Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling in October that removed a level of review in capital cases. The 6-1 decision in ...

Maryland’s highest court is considering whether to allow anyone sentenced to prison before turning 25 to seek new sentences after serving at least 15 years behind bars — no matter what the crime or ...