Phil Goff, as Justice Minister, introduced and championed the Sentencing Act 2002. This was touted as implementing a tougher ...

In 2007, a jury in British Columbia convicted pig farmer Robert Pickton of six counts of second-degree murder. The investigation began in 2002 when police executed a search warrant related to firearms ...

The National Law Enforcement Museum in D.C. has opened a new exhibit focused on artifacts from the D.C. Snipers ramapge.

Typically, a person serves 30 years on a life sentence before becoming eligible for parole. The men, both members of the Red ...

A National MP has put forward a member’s bill that would ensure that convicted murderers remain behind bars if they refuse to ...

Nearly three decades after Kristin Smart vanished, investigators in California conducted a new search warrant at a home in ...

A retired U.S. Army staff sergeant has been sentenced after stealing a military vehicle and crashing it into the headquarters ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in which family members of his slain ...

Worcester detectives revisit five Main South cold cases. Experts say victims’ similarities could point to a single offender.

Prison officials often ignored or misread an offender's history of family violence when they let the criminal out on parole, an independent report obtained by CBC News shows. The report, prepared for ...