Judge Paul Ridgeway explained his reasoning for the life sentence without parole for Austin Thompson, citing "permanent ...

Demorris Hunter, convicted of murder in College Park, faces the penalty phase of his trial. Will he spend life in prison or ...

WORCESTER – A Fitchburg man was sentenced to life in prison under the state’s habitual offender statute April 3 after being ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that mandatory life sentences for second-degree murder are unconstitutional ...

There’s a little-understood law in Pennsylvania that can send someone to prison for life without parole for murder, even when they didn’t actually kill someone. It’s called felony murder, or ...

Pennsylvania’s high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state’s constitutional ban on ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Minnehaha County Judge has sentenced a man to multiple life sentences for Rape and Human ...

William Doyle Magness was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after a jury found him guilty of the 1996 murder of Hopkins ...

The landmark ruling on a case brought by an Allegheny County man could change the lives of more than 1,000 people serving life without parole.

The state's highest court ruled that automatic life without parole sentences for felony murder violated the Pennsylvania ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that mandatory life sentences without parole for second-degree murder are unconstitutional. Lawmakers now have 120 days to reform the state's sentencing ...