Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has been busy. He was sworn into office less than two months ago and has ...

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

The path he walked from panhandling in the South to being charged with killing two people along the heart of Denver’s downtown shopping district was marked by homelessness, illegal drug use, ...

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

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

Jefferson County Court Judge Graham Peper reduced former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods’ $50 ...

Michelle West waited 32 years. Convicted in 1994 of nonviolent drug offenses, she was ordered to federal prison for two life sentences, plus an additional 50 years. On Sunday, former President Joe ...

In a moment that crystallized the complexities of America's criminal justice system, John Legend's recent visit to California ...

Italy's highest court is hearing an appeal by Amanda Knox against a slander conviction for falsely accusing a Congolese bar ...

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

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

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