(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) Danny Friedman, a lawyer for the claimants, said that if the sentences were allowed to stand, it would mark a “paradigm shift” in criminal law sentencing for ...

The great-granddaughter of leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has said sentences given to several climate protesters are “heavy-handed and disproportionate” ahead of the Court of Appeal hearing ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. By David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac President ...

He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!” A source close to the White House told The Post at midday Tuesday that executive action to turn Ulbricht loose was “incoming.” ...

The jail credit was going toward a three-year sentence for felony second-degree assault and felony fleeing police in a motor vehicle. Tillman was one of three people involved in a car theft and ...

“When you’re told you have cancer, you can’t help thinking it’s a death sentence,” she wrote in The Sun in October. “I’m reconciled to the fact that I will have to have checks for ...

Trump also commuted the sentences for 14 defendants. That included Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who had received the second-longest sentence of 18 years for his ...

Sundance: David France and Jesse Short Bull’s film tackles the 50-year story of activism surrounding the contentious conviction of the prominent American Indian Movement leader, whose sentence ...

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

Rioters stand on the west front of the U.S. Capitol building to protest the election certification of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Dan is a senior editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news. Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, and later ...

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was among nearly 1,600 January 6 defendants who were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted. He is expected to be in Miami by ...