The state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined an appeal by Michael S. Taylor, who was convicted of capital murder in the 1993 slayings of his Gadsden neighbors while he was AWOL from the Navy.

Mumbai : Ravindra Kantrole, known as 'Beer Man', was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court in Mumbai in the last of the three murder cases registered against him.

The state of Indiana can once again reinstate the death penalty against convicted quadruple-murderer Joseph E. Corcoran, according to a 2-1 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals issued Wednesday morning.

A man sentenced to die for the 1994 killing of a good Samaritan who stopped to help him along Interstate 80 near Reno lost a bid to overturn his conviction Wednesday.

A traveling salesman from Missouri is expected to receive life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to the rape and murder of a 90-year-old woman in her home in 2005.

The appeal court last June had upheld the death penalty against the three men given by a first instance court for "pimping and premeditated murder" of an unidentified Asian woman in October 2003.