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What an interesting headline this article has - On further reading, it appears that the execution has been halted as the judge found the defendant, Andre Cole, to be mentally unsound and therefore incompetent to be executed. Cole was originally sentenced in 1998 for murdering another man...

Jodi Arias, convicted of brutally murdering her boyfriend was today sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole. She has avoided the deathsentence which prosecuters originally sought. Should she have been executed? Or is life, with no parole punishment enough, especially at her...

Sofia Devila, the "Black Widow" of Facebook has this week been arrested on charges of drugging men she picked up on Facebook and luring them back to hotel rooms then robbing them. She's been charged with 15 counts of robery against these men and currently awaits trial alongside her two...

Two people have been arrested after a gruesome discovery by police. It seems that a teenager, who was pregnant by her stepfather, was abandoned by her parents, along with her 3 year old step-sister, while they took a road trip. If that's not bad enough, the little girl died in the teens custody...

Dzhokhar Tsarnev was today found guilty of all charges relating to his part in the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013. The next part of the trial will determine what his sentence will be. The prosecution will be requesting the death sentence, despite the majority of Bostonians claiming that they...

An Orange County Superiour Court judge today decided that convicted child rapist, Kevin Rojano, should have his 25 year sentence for sodomizing a child cut short by 15 years as "there was no violence or callous disregard to the vicim's well being". Is anyone else fuming with rage after reading...

Convicted murderer, Kamron T. Taylor escaped from the Jerome Combs Detention Center in eastern Illinois at around 3am this morning. He overpowered a guard, stole his keys and made off in his car. Taylor is considered to be armed and dangerous and remains at large...

Three men have been charged with felony criminal conspiracy and posession with intent to supply. They were using a daycare center called "Jesus Lil' Helpers", owned by the mother of one of the accused, to conduct their business after hours. Three Pennsylvania men charged with using day care...

How low can you get? Boston woman, Joanna Leigh, has been charged with larceny and making a false claim to a government agency after claiming she sustained an injury during the Boston Marathon bombing. She received over $36,000 from various charitable sources. Boston woman pleads not guilty to...

Two former DEA agents have been charged with money laundering and fraud offences after stealing millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin during the investigation into the Silk Road website. One of the agents, Carl Force, is also accused of trying to blackmail Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road founder, for of...

New Hampshire police are seeking a man who stole a cash box from a Girl Scout selling cookies outside her local Walmart on Saturday. Apparently he just grabbed the cash box from the girl and sped off in his car! It's unclear as to how much money was in the box but what a despicable thing to do...

Amanda Knox was today cleared of murdering her former room-mate, Meredith Kercher today. Rafaelle Sollecito, her ex-boyfriend and co-accused was also cleared. Does this conclude the affair though? There will be people who still believe her to be guilty and think she has literally gotten away...

It seems that the Colorado woman, Dynel Lane, who was charged with cutting an unborn baby out of it's mothers womb will not face murder charges. Colorado has no fetal homicide law, although it is an offence to "violently cause" the death of a fetus. There is quite obviously a very real need for...

The bodies of an 11 year old boy and a 14 year old girl were found in a freezer in a Detroit home yesterday during an eviction. Their mother has been arrested and post-mortems are being carried out to establish their cause of death. A neighbour claimed that she hadn't seen the children for...

Debra Milke, who spent 22 years on Death Row for the alleged murder of her son was today cleared of all charges. Her conviction was overturned on the basis that one of the detectives working on the case was discreditable. There are two other people on Death Row for this murder and both have...

Following Utah's recent decision to bring the firing squad back, the BBC have looked at whether this will become a trend. An EU embargo means that the drugs used in lethal injections are getting scarce so other methods of execution are being considered. What do you think? Do you think Death Row...

There has been one fatality and at least eight injuries after a shoot-out situation in a Walmat parking lot in Cottonwood, AZ. Amongst the injured was a 31 year old police officer who received a bullet to the leg. According to reports, a family of eight begain harassing a female store employee...

A lone gunman has shot at least six people today in a suburb of Phoenix, AZ. There was at least one fatality. The gunman is yet to be apprehended and several locations in the vicinity are now on lockdown. SWAT teams and canine officers have been dispatched from neighboring cities in a bid to...

Thomas Jackson, the police chief of Ferguson has agreed to resign, following calls from protesters and state leaders. Last week, the US Department of Justice issued a report accusing the city of Ferguson of using the police force and court houses to make money. Since then, another five employees...

Prosecutors in Chapel Hill, NC are seeking the death penalty against 46 year old Craig Stephen hicks, the man accused of murdering three Muslim students during an alleged argument about car parking last month. The hearing to determine whether NC can seek the death penalty begins on 6th April and...