Two 16-year-old boys have been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, who was stabbed 27 times with machetes while riding a bus in south-east London.The ...

Bryan Kohberger has begun his life sentence behind bars in one of the worst prisons in the USA. Yesterday the killer, who ...

A Luzerne County man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in relation to the death of a store clerk. This comes after a ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — On Wednesday, a Canyon County man was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of his ...

Jeremy Albert Best receives three consecutive life sentences for killing his pregnant wife, unborn child, and 10-month-old ...

Over 200,000 inmates in U.S. prisons can expect to die there, but only 2,620 of them are on death row. The rest are sentenced either to life in prison—over 50,000 of them without the possibility ...

The most heinous crimes are rare, but the world’s population of lifers is large and probably growing. According to the World Prison List, the population of all inmates rose by 20%, to 10.4m ...

Unless you were watching C-Span2 Tuesday, you may not have noticed that the Senate voted to keep a controversial provision in the defense spending bill that ...

His life expectancy was a further 61 years when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Roger Dean was 37, with a life expectancy of a further 48.3 years in 2013, when he received multiple life ...

Arnie King has been serving a sentence of life without parole in Massachusetts since 1972 for the murder of John Labanara. King was a high school dropout addicted to drugs and alcohol.

At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.