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  • Sentencing Panel May Cut Crack Cocaine Terms
    Nearly 20,000 people convicted of drug offenses could find out Tuesday if they'll be spending less time in prison. The U.S. Sentencing Commission may reduce the extra punishment that's given for crimes involving crack, as compared to powdered, cocaine. The Supreme Court ruled that federal judges may give lighter sentences to crack cocaine defendants than has been required.
  • U.S. citizen Kim Dong-chul, seen here arriving at court Friday, was sentenced to hard labor for what North Korea says were acts of espionage.
    North Korean Court Sentences American To Prison Term
    Now sentenced to 10 years in prison and hard labor over espionage charges, Kim Dong-chul, 62, is reportedly a former resident of Fairfax, Va.
  • Former Pembroke Academy Dean Sentenced for Drug Possession
    A former dean of students at a Pembroke Academy in New Hampshire says her arrest for drug possession was the best thing that happened to her, because it…
  • Former Fortune 500 Executive To Be Sentenced In Fatal Crash
    A New Hampshire man is set to learn his sentence for causing the crash that killed a Vermont couple and their unborn fetus.The second day of Robert…
  • Maryland Study Points to Race Factor in Death Sentences
    A study suggests offenders who kill white victims in Maryland are more likely to be sentenced to death than those who kill non-whites. Departing Gov. Parris Glendening imposed a moratorium on the death penalty pending the study's outcome. Lisa Nurnberger of member station WAMU reports.
  • Illinois Governor Set to Commute 156 Death Sentences
    A spokesman says Illinois Gov. George Ryan will commute the death sentences of all of the state's 156 death-row prisoners. Ryan has scheduled a news conference for Saturday afternoon. He gave four death-row inmates full pardons Friday, saying they had confessed under police torture. NPR News reports.
  • Saudi High Court Upholds Blasphemy Sentence On Blogger
    Raif Badawi, who was arrested in 2012 for "insulting Islam through electronic means," will undergo a total of 1,000 lashes and spend a decade behind bars.
  • Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock at a courtroom of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.
    Oscar Pistorius To Be Released On Bail As He Awaits Sentencing
    An appeals court found Pistorius guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. While he awaits sentencing, Pistorius will be under house arrest.
  • Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for assault
    More than six years after his first trial began, former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's New York sex crimes case came to a close Wednesday when he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  • Sentencing postponed for Keene man who breached the Capitol
    Jason Riddle pleaded guilty to charges he entered the Capitol, and then stole items including a book and a bottle of wine.
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