A man was sentenced to 22 years in jail for the rape of a six year old girl.
Top Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was Friday sentenced to 27 years in jail for treason in a case denounced as a “miscarriage of justice”.
A man was sentenced to life in prison for the rape of an elderly woman and robbery.
A man was sentenced to two life terms imprisonment for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.
Jeffrey Shockley is a writer serving a life sentence in the State Correctional Institution-Fayette in Pennsylvania.
Of the 50 US states, 24 have the death penalty in place, while 23 have abolished it. The remaining 3 have a moratorium on the death penalty.
The 29 June 1972 Furman v. Georgia Supreme Court ruling placed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in the United States.
A stepfather was sentenced to life in prison for rape on his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend.
A Russian court sentenced a 24-year-old professional soldier to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine
South Africa’s prisons are home to serious human rights violations – some of which are significantly underreported.
With little hope around them, prisoners in a high-security correction facility have found the light at the end of the tunnel with DANCE.
Gayton McKenzie is filled with joy and pride after inmates completed major repairs to the home of a GBV victim in the area
A man who plowed his sports utility vehicle into a Christmas parade killing six people, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services has asked the Parliament to intervene on prison conditions in Mzansi.
Man who contracted HIV and was forcibly tattooed while in jail was awarded R2-million in damages for unjustly spending two years in prison.
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An engineer and his wife were sentenced to long prison terms for plotting to SELL submarine secrets to a foreign country.
The UN has called on Egypt to immediately release Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed dissident on hunger strike, saying his life was at risk.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has deplored the fate of thousands of children living in “a giant open air prison” at Syria’s Al-Hol camp.
The number of the prison population continues to increase while capacity for such perpetrators is insufficient.
Myanmar ex-leader and a Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison, source said Thursday
Sean Davison who was convicted of premeditated murders of three people he helped to die, was released Monday after 3 year euthanasia sentence
‘How to murder your husband’ writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was sentenced to life in prison for a real murder of her husband, judge said
Former presidential candidate Abdelmoneim Aboul Fotouh was sentenced 15 years in prison for spreading false news and incitement against state