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James Osgood was condemned to die for the 2010 killing of Tracy Lynn Brown. He is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges.

The condemned man is one of only a small number of inmates on U.S. death rows to abandon their legal challenges. He also said ...

Edward Estrada's client already had admitted to skimming - installing devices inside gas pumps to steal customers' credit ...

Families can give testimony to a parole board member, but the inmate isn’t present. The hearings are not public, and what scant information exists about board decisions must be obtained through ...

There are 21 Clark County inmates serving life sentences or life without parole, and one Garland County inmate on death row who served probation in Clark County in the 1980s. The total includes 290 ...

But New York's soft-on-crime parole board is poised to release its ... Cuomo also ordered the board to consider an inmate's "progress" behind bars more than the severity of the original offense.

BOISE, Idaho – James Johnson received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 35 years on Friday, April 4. The sentencing followed Johnson's guilty plea to first-degree murder in ...

The State Bar of Texas is notifying members of a data breach that leaked sensitive information after a ransomware group breached its systems and accessed some files. With over 100,000 licensed ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Travis County District Attorney's Office has settled with the Texas Attorney General’s Office in a lawsuit over releasing information about a secret $115,000 security ...

A state Parole Board on Wednesday denied parole for a 48-year-old Rohnert Park man convicted in 2012 for assaulting his wife in a scheme to frame his ex-girlfriend and get her deported.