Why not take the leap? In a new series, author, critic and broadcaster Cristín Leach explores the craft of non-fiction. The first sentence (and this is true for non-fiction, fiction, and all ...

Moreover, non-custodial sentences facilitate rehabilitation and decrease recidivism by promoting personal accountability and providing alternatives to incarceration. These measures reduce the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A County Durham teenager who avoided jail for raping a girl will have his sentence reviewed by the Attorney General’s Office after claims ...

Nandhini Devi pronounced the quantum of sentence at the special court set up for trial ... of the Indian Penal Code. Section 376 D is a non-bailable section which attracts rigorous imprisonment for ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A man convicted in the deadly hit-and-run of an 8-year-old boy in Chesapeake was back in court Thursday trying to reduce his sentence. The judge denied Richard Humbert ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez, who have served roughly 35 years of a life-without-parole prison sentence for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in Beverly Hills, were re-sentenced Tuesday in a ...

With sentencing a week from Friday, freedom is at stake for Madigan, who at age 83 could die in prison if the government's recommended sentence is imposed. It's been nearly four months since ...

English is weird. Punctuation is weird. And if you’re not careful with both, you can write something weird when you don’t ...

A Free State man has been handed an effective 30-year sentence for raping a 61-year-old woman and her 10-year-old granddaughter. The woman and child were asleep in their home in Kutloanong, ...