Convicts in Delhi gets relief. High Court enables convicts parole

Ls Hon’ble Justice Mr. V.K. Jain in a landmark judgment has rejected Delhi Government Order that refused Parole to life convict Mr. Chintu Malhotra stating that availability of free legal services to convicts is no ground to decline Parole.   Delhi Government had...

Betty Broderick To Have A Parole Hearing After 32 Years In Prison

Betty Broderick, a 62-year-old convicted killer and mother of four children, is set to have a parole hearing today after spending 32 years in prison for breaking into the house and murdering former husband Dan Broderick and his second wife Linda Kolkena in their bed in 1989....

Manson follower Susan Atkins denied early parole

" CHOWCHILLA, CALIFORNIA --- Suffering from terminal brain cancer, the former Charles Manson follower who showed actress Sharon Tate no mercy as she brutally stabbed her to death, sought sympathy from the California...

Leonard Peltier Federal Parole Board Hearing Held July 28, 2009

Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist, will attend his first full Federal Parole Board hearing in over 15 years on July 28, 2009, after having spent more than 33 years in prison.Leonard Peltier was an active...

Charles Manson - The Story That Stopped the World in it's Tracks

Few crimes literally strike fear and horror into the collective hearts of this world.  However the story of the Manson Family and specifically Charles Manson himself in 1969 managed to do exactly that, with...

Greyhound Bus Beheader Vince Li "Fit to Stand Trial" as Mom Calls for "Tim's ...

Carol DeDelley, mother of Tim McLean, 22, publicly and callously butchered on a Greyhound bus on its way to Manitoba, allegedly by drifter Vincent Li, 40.  Li was found fit to stand trial last week, accused...

Man convicted of murder in 'Precious Doe' case

"KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man who kicked his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City, Missouri, area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."...

Rendell calls for halt to prisoner releases

" Gov. Ed Rendell calls for halt to prisoner releases"" Responding to mounting criticism of Pennsylvania's parole process after the killing of a Philadelphia police...

Outraged cops to take on lenient judges

"Outraged cops to take on lenient judges By Andrew Maykuth Inquirer Staff Writers Embattled Philadelphia...

Five Times Denied: No Parole for John Lennon's Killer

There will be no parole for Mark David Chapman, the man who killed songwriter John Lennon twenty-eight years ago. Chapman was denied parole for the fifth time on Tuesday, as New York's parole board declared that...

Hijacker returns to Croatia after serving 30 years in USA

 A Croatian terrorist has been granted parole and will be deported to his homeland after serving 30 years of a life prison term for hijacking a plane and planting a bomb that killed a policeman. " Zvonko Busic, 62, came back to a warm welcome from several hundred...

Khodorkovsky asks for parole in Russia

Lawyers are trying to secure the release of jailed Russian billionaire and crtitic of former President V Putin.  He is serving the jail term on what is widely believed a political case. " ...

`Black Widows' Sentenced to Life in Prison

Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives. "Helen Golay of

Steven Truscott gets $6.5 Million for Wrongful Conviction

In 1959, then 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of a schoolgirl, a friend of Truscott's.He narrowly avoided his death sentence, spending more than 10 years behind bars. After he emerged, he stayed quiet for over 25 years, taking an...

Feels Remorse: Canadian Child Rapist-Murderer to be Paroled?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor David William Shearing Child Rapist who killed their parents so he could rape 2 little girls, torture them and then kill them now feels remorse. His wife is quoted...

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