A special fast-track court for Pocso cases in Chhattisgarh's Durg district has awarded the death penalty to a 24-year-old man for the rape and murder of his six-year-old niece, with the court holding ...

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Former Virginia death row prisoner Justin Wolfe was released Sept. 28 after 25 years behind bars, following a Fourth Circuit ...

Durg: A Fast Track Special POCSO Court has awarded a double death sentence to a man for the rape and murder of a minor girl in Chhattisgarh’s Durg last year. The six-year-old went missing on April 6, ...

In the wake of the Civil War, Morrill, an abolitionist, called for an update to the act. Passed in 1890, the new law required ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player to score a goal in U.S. men's national team history, fellow ...

William Reaves is scheduled for execution for the 1986 murder of Indian River County sheriff’s Deputy Richard Raczkoski. Reaves, a Vietnam veteran, claimed he was "coked-out" and paranoid when he shot ...

He stalked her inside the store, shot her 10 times, and took nothing. Now he's got a life sentence — with a release date.

Algerian lawmakers have passed a bill reintroducing the death penalty for arson after deadly wildfires this summer. The bill passed 307-17 with seven abstentions on Thursday. Algeria has not ...

Exploring firsthand accounts and contemporary media coverage, historians and family members discuss the sometimes contentious and often debated life, death, and guilt of Bertha Gifford, Missouri’s ...

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike has been a prolific letter writer through the years, responding to the sympathetic, the curious, the amorous, even the devious. WBIR has obtained copies ...