Jarvis Butts of Detroit will serve up to 60 years in prison for the murder of Na'Ziyah Harris and other charges.

Jarvis Butts was sentenced to 35 to 60 years for the murder of Na'Ziyah Harris and the sexual assault of five girls.

A mother is headed to prison for torturing her elementary school-aged daughter in what prosecutors described as "one of the most abominable child abuse cases ever encountered in Minnesota." ...

The damages would be paid by a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak ...

Closing arguments took place on Wednesday for the trial of nine people accused of a coordinated attack at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado. Combined, they face a total of 65 charges ...

Relatives of Mauricio Gesmundo Sr. — an 83-year-old man who was bound and beaten to death in his Philadelphia home four years ago — urged harsh punishment for what they said was a vicious, deliberate ...

An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge granted a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s ex during a custody exchange in Pittsburgh three years ago. Ambrose Sample ...

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice ...

Two people accused of orchestrating a shooting that killed a woman in Lakewood last year have together been sentenced to more than four decades in prison, according to court records.

A Cassia County judge provided the clearest timeline and explanation yet of killings in Cassia and Minidoka counties.

"I'm just trying to be a better man and a better father now ... Too much has been taken away from me," Reginald Dillard said.