WASHINGTON — The ranks of people sentenced to death and the number executed declined in 2004 as the nation’s death-row population kept shrinking, the government reported Sunday. Last year, a dozen ...

Custodial sentences fell 6% between 2016/17 and 2017/18 as conviction rates and those being proceeded against in court both dropped by around 10%. Community sentences handed out to criminals have ...

Juries in Texas - the nation's most-active death penalty state - sentenced only eight killers to die this year, the lowest number since 1976 when the U.S. Supreme Court ended its ban on capital ...

A RECORD number of people have been convicted of stalking — but only a quarter received prison sentences. Figures obtained by The Sun on Sunday reveal 1,150 were ...

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