As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden drafted the Senate version of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement ...

PM’s spokesman confirms commitment to UN children’s rights convention after calls for Southport attacker never to be released ...

Kemba Smith Pradia was convicted of a non-violent drug offense in 1994 and served 6.5 years of a 24-year sentence. She says ...

Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road ...

The Boise resident was one of five Idahoans whose convictions were pardoned. Two other ongoing cases have been dismissed.

Lawyers contend Dorchester County jurors in Marion Bowman's death penalty trial didn't get full story, but appeals court say ...

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

Patty and Paul Bender lament how the public and celebrity stature of the case compounded a series of slights that has left ...

An Indian court has sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a ...

A day that began with the outgoing president's pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president's ...

At least two Wyoming men are included in President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of about 1,500 charged and prosecuted for ...

President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott ...