Kopp was serving a sentence of 120 to 300 months for second-degree murder, the department said. The Review-Journal previously reported that, according to police, Kopp confessed in a 911 call to ...

(Courtesy Elissa Ely) Grief is a funny thing ... After a long and generous life, surviving arctic blasts from swinging doors in February and unholy heat in August, the plant is dying.

A Brooklyn man is facing at least 20 years behind bars for the senseless stabbing death of a community activist ... to plead guilty in exchange for a prison term of 20 years to life when he ...

Pennsylvania’s row officers — two of them incumbents, one a newcomer — were sworn in Tuesday during back-to-back ceremonies at the Forum building’s auditorium in Harrisburg. The occasion ...

Brenda Andrew and her boyfriend, James Pavatt, were convicted of the 2001 murder of her husband, Rob Andrew AP Photo/The Oklahoman, David McDaniel The only woman on death row in Oklahoma could get ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma woman on death row who argued that extensive ... evidence used in her prosecution violated state law and federal due process because it was ...

Her supporters said the state weaponized sex stereotypes at trial, which they say is all too common in the criminal justice system. The Supreme Court in 2017 ruled for a Black death row inmate who ...

According to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), Emerich had been released from Ely State Prison in October after serving time for possession of a controlled substance, possession of a ...

Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma’s only woman on death row, has been granted a lifeline by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ordered a new review of her case following claims that her trial was unfair ...

If that happens, Ziegler would join the list of 30 wrongfully convicted men who have been freed from death row in Florida. The state has not yet filed a response to the motion and a hearing to ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is stuck in a 101-101 partisan divide following the sudden death of one of its Democratic members, leaving the chamber deadlocked until a special election ...