Children can and do commit terrible crimes. When they do, they should be held accountable, but in a manner that reflects their special capacity for rehabilitation. However, in the United States the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A 67-year-old Cleveland man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for sexually assaulting four young girls over a ten-year period. Billy Flynn was sentenced Wednesday to life ...

A 54-year-old Plano man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a young child, the Collin County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday. Christopher ...

When commencing our research for this report, Human Rights Watch discovered that, while the U.S. Department of Justice uses FBI crime statistics to compile data on juvenile crime, and the U.S. Office ...

Life-without-parole sentences are steadily replacing the death penalty across the United States. Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, ...

Krystal Osinski kept it short before the sentencing of Darin Thrailkill, who was convicted for strangling her son to death on ...

The California Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would allow inmates sentenced to life without parole the opportunity to request an early release if their crimes were committed before the age of ...

If Bill S.1087 becomes law, anyone who was under 21 when convicted of manslaughter or first- or second-degree murder and ...

A 32-year-old man has been convicted in a Birmingham gas station shooting that killed two men, injured a third and narrowly missed a 1-year-old boy. A Jefferson County jury on Monday found Antonio ...

Matthew Lanz, the Cobb County man found guilty of killing his new neighbors and leaving their toddler alone with their bodies ...