The bodies of 11 men and one woman, some with their tongues cut out, were found dumped in an empty lot next to a Tijuana elementary school Monday morning, an hour before children were scheduled to arrive. Complete Story...
A man previously convicted of perjury in the long-unsolved case of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Texas 25 years ago now has been convicted of those murders.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an appeal from convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to death for masterminding a 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C. region that left 10 people dead.
When Darnell Hartsfield saw the inside of a Texas prison cell for the first time in 1984, it was for an aggravated robbery he committed the previous year. But prosecutors contend the Tyler man was involved in a far more heinous crime just three days before his arrest for that September 1983 robbery.
In the end, killer pedophile Joseph Edward Duncan III couldn't — or wouldn't — offer a reason why he should live.
A Chinese couple brutally murdered in northern England may have been targeted over links to a bogus visa business and an Internet betting scam, detectives said Friday.
A man fatally shot his wife and a bystander who stumbled on the crime, then holed up in a bedroom with his three children before apparently passing out during a police raid, authorities said.
A 9-year-old boy who was tortured and killed by a convicted pedophile in front of his younger sister might have been able to survive a shot to the abdomen had he been taken to a hospital, a doctor told a jury that will decide whether the man gets the death penalty.
As a jury hears prosecutors explain why he should be put to death for killing four members of a family and kidnapping a fifth, a convicted pedophile may offer no substantial counter-argument for why he should live.
A man who kidnapped two Idaho children and murdered one of them in 2005 is allowed to represent himself at his death penalty hearing, a federal judge decided Monday.
A Pennsylvania judge says a teenager who killed three members of a family must serve three consecutive life terms.
A man charged with killing three people with a knife and a hammer said "I had fun" and blew a kiss to reporters while being led into court after his arrest.
A man suspected of killing his wife and two young children in the family's rural home in western Pennsylvania was arrested Thursday after a daylong manhunt and charged in their deaths.
A jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and later, a sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to death Monday despite his attorney's pleas for leniency.
A suspected serial predator accused of sexually assaulting four women, killing two of them, was described by co-workers as a polite, soft-spoken car salesman who mostly kept to himself.
A teen accused of killing his family spent the hours after the slayings riding four-wheelers with a friend and buying steaks for dinner, the friend said Tuesday.
Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood, according to lawyers trying to save him from the death penalty.
A man convicted of killing six women was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.
A confessed child killer must be evaluated for mental competency before he can act as his own lawyer in death penalty proceedings, a federal judge ruled Monday.
It's been nearly three years since Joseph Edward Duncan III kidnapped two young siblings at their home after killing their parents and older brother. Shasta and Dylan Groene were whisked away to western Montana, where they were tortured, raped and Dylan was slain.
A nonprofit group of attorneys that helps inmates believed to be wrongfully convicted has filed a formal complaint against a pathologist whose work has come under scrutiny.
About 1,000 people attended a funeral on Saturday for a couple and their four children, who police said were killed in a murder-suicide shortly after attending an Easter Mass in the same church.
A judge convicted a man Thursday of killing six women whose bodies were dumped in an area frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers.
A mother and her four children found dead in their Iowa City home were beaten to death, apparently by the father, authorities said Wednesday after autopsy results were released.
Maryland's highest court on Friday rejected convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad's request for a new trial.
This article's lede is an anecdote of something that happened 25 years ago. Without the incident in the anecdote, there would be no story.
In the decade since 1997, during which the numbers for almost all other violent and non-violent crimes have fallen dramatically, the number of British teenagers convicted of knife-related crimes has nearly tripled, from 482 to 1,256 in 2006.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A man was sentenced Wednesday to 276 years in prison for the slayings of two women and the wounding of four children in an Indianapolis apartment in 2006.
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