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Freshman Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) brought a convicted murderer, who he helped release from prison through clemency and hired to work on his campaign, to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. 

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), running against Republican Mark Ronchetti in the state’s highly contested gubernatorial race, helped free a convicted criminal early from prison who went on to murder his ex-girlfriend.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, suggests that the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” justifies releasing convicted murderers from prison. 

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, said there is “always that possibility” that convicted killers he helps get released from prison will go on to commit more murders.

A Minnesota mother is accused of murdering her six-year-old son after police say his bullet-ridden body was found in the trunk of her car.

An Oregon jury on Wednesday convicted 71-year-old Nancy Crampton Brophy – who authored a blog post in 2011 called “How to Murder Your Husband” – of killing her husband, Daniel Brophy, in 2018, KOIN reported.

A mother and father from Hiram, Georgia, have been charged with murdering their four-week-old infant, who doctors said “had a quantity of alcohol in its system that was well over four times the legal limit for an adult,” according to authorities.

A 61-year-old homeless man in New York City admitted to reporters that he pushed a woman in front of an oncoming subway train, which led to her death, and declared himself “God” as he was walked by police out of the Midtown South NYPD precinct Saturday.

A 34-year-old New Orleans man was booked on a second-degree murder charge days after police reported they found a woman’s headless torso in a freezer on his property.

A teen who stabbed to death another teen in August 2020 has been sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours of community service.

A woman has been arrested after she allegedly threw her infant and five-year-old child off of a bridge at Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana, which killed the infant and injured the small child.

A woman fatally shot her ex-girlfriend in broad daylight in New York City in a sudden, bold attack, police said.

A handyman accused of fatally shooting a woman who worked in construction was later run over by her boyfriend in an alleged act of revenge at a New York City construction site Wednesday, according to a video.

Four girls are accused of fatally stabbing a 15-year-old girl at a Louisiana Walmart Saturday, authorities said.

Three arrests have been made in connection with the cold case of 16-year-old Amber Woods, who was found dead 14 years ago along a Florida road.

Authorities say two brothers have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery and fatal shooting of a Louisiana gas station clerk who was on his knees when he gave the money from the cash register to the suspects.

A judge upheld the second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Thursday against former officer Derek Chauvin in connection with the George Floyd case.

A DNA search led police to a man who allegedly raped and killed a 14-year-old girl in Rochester, New York, in 1984; authorities arrested him at his Florida home, officials announced Friday.

An inmate freed from a Florida prison on March 19 due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis allegedly committed murder the following day.

Sarah Boone has been arrested after zipping boyfriend Jorge Torrez Jr. into a suitcase and leaving him to die — while filming it.

William Bottoms Jr.’s attorney, Jarvis Antwine, made a point of noting the alleged murderer’s facial tattoos during jury selection Monday in Louisiana.

A New York man intentionally plowed his vehicle into a family of eight outside of a 7-Eleven on Wednesday, killing the mother after the father told him not to smoke near his children, police said.

On Friday afternoon, a Cook County jury pronounced Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of teenager LaQuan McDonald.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy brutally murdered in the street said neither New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio or Police Commissioner James O’Neill had reached out to the family with a phone call in the days following the murder.

A woman in upstate New York has been arrested and charged with murder for drowning her ten-day-old son in a bathtub, police say.

Five teens are accused of murdering a man after a massive rock from a Michigan overpass struck the victim in the chest and head, causing his death.

A judge sentenced a Minnesota man Monday to 25 years behind bars for punching his infant daughter to death because he was irritated by the baby noises she made.

An illegal immigrant in a small North Carolina town intentionally hit and killed a bicyclist with his car, according to police.

A jury on Tuesday convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that was partially witnessed by their two young sons.

Much changed in the story of a lost kayaker between April 19 and the 30th, when discovery of a diary may have factored into his fiancée going from attempted rescuer to accused murderer, despite a still-missing body. Angelika Graswald, 35,