Austin Powers Thug Killed Cell Mate: Police
A jailbird California actor who played Doctor Evil's henchman in an Austin Powers film is suspected of killing his sex-offender cell mate, investigators have revealed. The 50-year-old victim was...
View ArticleVa. Clears Innocent Man of Rapes After 27 Years
For 27 years, Thomas Haynesworth sat in prison, learning auto mechanics, welding, and masonry … and fighting to clear his name. That fight paid off yesterday, when a Virginia appeals court declared him...
View ArticleEx-Nazi, 90, Starts Life Sentence
A 90-year-old former member of the Nazi SS is heading to prison for murder—67 years later. An ambulance picked up the wheelchair-bound Heinrich Boere at his nursing home in Germany and carried him to a...
View Article'Ahmazing' Teen Killer Sentenced to Life
A Missouri teen who pleaded guilty to murdering a 9-year-old girl in a killing she described in her journal as "ahmazing" has been sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, the News Tribune...
View ArticleUnderwear Bomber Gets Life in Prison
A Nigerian man on a suicide mission for al-Qaeda was sentenced today to life in prison for attempting to blow up an international flight with a bomb in his underwear as the plane approached Detroit on...
View ArticleMubarak Has 'Health Crisis' After Guilty Verdict
Hosni Mubarak had some kind of health problem today after his guilty verdict and life sentence, reports Reuters . It's still not clear what's going on, but state TV said the former Egyptian leader, who...
View ArticleSupreme Court Strikes Down Mont. Campaign Finance Law
The US Supreme Court today struck down a Montana campaign finance law that would have allowed states to curb the impact of the court's earlier Citizens United ruling. In a 5-4 vote along the court's...
View ArticleGiffords to Confront Gunman in Court
The Arizona gunman who killed six people and wounded 13, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will be sentenced to life in prison this morning—and Giffords herself will be in the courtroom,...
View ArticleGosnell Will Be Spared Death Penalty
Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies he delivered by snipping their spines with scissors, will not face the death penalty. The 72-year-old waived his right to appeal...
View ArticleAriel Castro to Spend Rest of Life in Prison
Ariel Castro will spend the rest of his life in prison. The Cleveland man, accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade, has accepted a plea deal, reports the AP . He will...
View ArticleWoman Gets Life Sentence After 6th DUI
The first five times Rose Ann Davidson got busted for drunken driving, she managed to avoid lengthy prison sentences. Not so on No. 6: The Austin American-Statesman reports that a jury gave the...
View ArticleChina Sentences Bo Xilai to Life
Capping a dizzying downfall, a Chinese court has slapped onetime political rock star Bo Xilai with a life sentence in prison after convicting him of corruption and abuse of power. "Bo Xilai was a...
View Article2 Fla. Killers on the Loose Thanks to Forged Papers
"Oops" doesn't really cover this one: Florida investigators say two murderers, at least one of whom was serving a life sentence, were wrongly freed from the Franklin Correctional Institution in...
View ArticleFlorida Cops Nab Prisoners Freed By Mistake
Police recaptured two convicted killers who were freed from a Florida prison by phony documents , and authorities shifted attention to finding out who was responsible for the mistaken releases that...
View ArticleChina Confirms: Bo Xilai Going to Prison for Life
A court today upheld ousted politician Bo Xilai's conviction and life sentence for corruption and abuse of power in the final decision of one of China's most politically charged trials in decades. The...
View ArticleAfter Mass Trial, Bangladesh to Execute 152
A 2009 mutiny of disgruntled border guards seeking higher wages in Bangladesh resulted in 74 deaths; now far more than that are set to die. After a mass civilian trial that began in 2011 and involved...
View Article3.3K US Prisoners Serving Life for Non-Violent Crimes
When you think of criminals who get locked away for life with no hope of parole, murderers or rapists might come to mind. But a guy who shoplifted a $159 jacket? He is one of 3,278 prisoners serving...
View ArticleFuture Sentences Could Last 1K Years —in Prisoners' Minds
We could someday see prison sentences radically altered—in the prisoner's own mind, the Telegraph reports. An Oxford philosophers are considering how future technology could, for instance, make a jail...
View ArticleJudge Tells Killer: 'I Hope You Die in Prison'
"I hope you die in prison." The phrase was heard in court this week as 31-year-old Camia Gamet got sentenced to life in prison for murder. It came not from a member of the victim's family, however, but...
View ArticlePope Francis: Let's Abolish Life Sentences
That Pope Francis spoke out today against capital punishment is no big surprise. But he made headlines by coming out against life sentences as well, reports the Guardian . In a speech to the...
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