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Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday following his double murder conviction. Judge Clifton Newman imposed the sentence on Murdaugh at the Colleton County Courthouse a day after he was

A woman convicted of sexual assault against a man at a football match has avoided being jailed despite her victim requesting she be given equal treatment.

The man who shot and wounded pop star Lady Gaga’s dog walker and then stole her French bulldogs last year was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Monday after taking a plea deal.

A teenage sex trafficking victim was sentenced Tuesday to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the family of the man who raped her multiple times.

Britain’s notoriously lax judicial system has reportedly seen nearly 40 per cent of repeat knife crime offenders spared from prison terms over the past year despite the government implementing a “two-strike” sentencing rule meant to deter them.

A California mother was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after she murdered her infant son by pushing him from a parking garage. 

A Miami man received 25 years in prison for sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl and an adult woman, whom he subjected to his “Torture Chamber.”

Jussie Smollett’s sister expressed outrage once the actor was sentenced to jail for 150 days and ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution.

Mass mockery came pouring in on convicted felon and hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett following Thursday’s court hearing, in which the disgraced actor was sentenced to 150 days in Cook County jail, 30 months of probation, as well ordered to pay restitution fees for faking a racist and homophobic hate crime against himself in January 2019.

Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson have written a letter on behalf of hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett, asking Cook County Judge James Linn for leniency when sentencing the disgraced actor on Thursday.

Hate crime hoaxer and disgraced actor Jussie Smollett is set to be sentenced on Thursday after being found guilty of lying to police over his the staged attack he made against himself in January 2019.

A Las Vegas woman was sentenced to eight to twenty years in prison on Friday for pushing 74-year-old Serge Fournier off a bus on March 21, 2019, causing his death a month later.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for leaving his 19-month old toddler daughter to die in a burning car while fleeing police, authorities said.

Hate preachers and terrorist plotters could face tougher prison sentences under new guidelines proposed by the Sentencing Council.

The man who is facing life in prison for masterminding the 2017 attack on a Minnesota mosque is now claiming he is a transgender “woman.”

A former Oregon high school teacher and coach who pleaded guilty to having oral sex with a teenage student was sentenced to just over seven years in prison on Thursday.

Two teenagers who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fatal assault of a 13-year-old at a California school have been sentenced to probation.

An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.

Russian police detained over 1,000 people Tuesday after thousands of protesters took to the streets across Russia to denounce the prison sentence of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced that day.

A judge sentenced an Indiana woman who pleaded guilty to funding the Islamic State (ISIS) to six and a half years in prison, the Justice Department announced Monday.

A former teacher was sentenced to prison Tuesday after she had sex with students and provided drugs to one of them in Pontiac, Michigan. 

New data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission revealed that American women of all races receive shorter prison sentences than white men who commit the same crimes.

A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a Saudi-born al-Qaeda terrorist to life in prison Friday for killing two U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was “incensed” Wednesday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent him a letter warning that the sentence reductions in legislation Grassley is sponsoring would be a “grave error.”

A GoFundMe page for a sexual abuse victim’s father who in court Friday lunged at disgraced U.S. Olympics Gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar, received more than $31,000 in donations in 24 hours.

The wife of a wounded soldier is expected to provide testimony against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at his sentencing hearing in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Monday.

Campaigners and politicians have expressed concern over the revelation that Hampshire Police handed more than 100 cautions for rape and other serious sexual offences in the past five years.

A man convicted of raping a child twice, once when she was 10 and again when she was 11, received the maximum penalty Thursday at his sentencing hearing.

A Florida judge sentenced a man to five years in prison for a fatal wreck that killed his wife while they had sex and he drove drunk.

A grim government report shows more than 500,000 people died from drug overdoses in only 15 years, and confirms that “the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening.”

An actor who played a police officer on the TV show “The Shield” was sentenced Friday to 40 years to life in prison after tearfully apologizing for fatally shooting his wife but still insisting he didn’t mean to kill her.

Giovanni Gambino, the son of a notorious Mafia leader, tells Breitbart News that Hillary Clinton told him in a private meeting that she was going to help change the RICO laws in the United States.

A Michigan man apologized in court last week by singing an Adele-inspired song after he was found guilty of holding up another man at gun point.