Tag: Criminal justice system

An Indiana dude was put to death by lethal injection early Tuesday in the state's second execution since 2009. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, was on death row for over two decades after being convicted of...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, the actor who starred in the movie "Sing Sing" after serving nearly 24 years in prison, has been officially cleared of a murder he did not commit. The Manhattan judge vacated...

The brutal beating death of Robert Brooks Sr. at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York has stirred a wave of outrage and calls for justice. The incident, which occurred in December 2024,...

Fred Bandy Jr., a man from Indiana, has been given a life sentence for the murder of a 17-year-old girl named Laurel Jean Mitchell back in 1975. The young girl was found dead in...

An inmate was sentenced to more than four years for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a federal prison in West Virginia. Massachusetts gangster Paul...

The Texas Supreme Court recently made a decision to pause the execution of Robert Roberson, a man who had been found guilty of murdering his daughter. This case has sparked a lot of debate...

Alright, so like, there was this dude named Matthew Johnson, and he got executed for setting a convenience store clerk on fire back in 2012. The poor clerk, Nancy Harris, was just doing her...

In early 1979, a 25-year-old woman named Marion Berry Ouma was tragically shot to death near Hoover Dam in Arizona. The case remains unsolved, and Mohave County cold case detectives are now asking for...

Sheriff Jack Campbell, who has been under scrutiny for bringing on the ex-deputy involved in the tragic shooting of Sonya Massey, has made the decision to retire by the end of the month. This...

A man who was once serving five life sentences behind bars, facing what appeared to be an indefinite future without freedom, has now been granted a second chance at life. This remarkable turn of...