By David Swanson Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq. But most of the United States' 50 states no longer use the death penalty.  There are 18 states that have abolished it– six in this new millennium ...

Gov. Jan Brewer has appointed three attorneys to serve on the Pima County Superior Court.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A married father from western Pennsylvania will spend 14 to 28 years in prison for using phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls.

A jury at the coming child-abuse trial of a 35-year-old Little Rock man can hear the child’s mother testify that the defendant once talked about hiding the boy’s body if he died, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright ruled Monday.

An organization representing gas station and convenience store owners has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court alleging the State of Indiana's law regarding the sale of cold beer is "irrational and discriminatory."

Consumer Attorney Services added Ekee Ehrlich to its stable of foreclosure defense attorneys. As Florida continues to lead the nation in foreclosures, Ehrlich will provide help to homeowners in foreclosure defense, bankruptcy and debt settlement.Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 Consumer Attorney Services added Ekee Ehrlich to its stable of foreclosure defense attorneys. As Florida ...

CLINTON -- A Camanche man will serve as much as 20 years in prison for holding his wife at knifepoint on July 7, 2012. In April, Arthur Walker, 52, 4102 Ninth St., Camanche, pleaded guilty to third-degree kidnapping, third-degree sexual abuse and wil

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A western Pennsylvania veteran who has post-traumatic stress disorder must remain in jail until he stands trial on federal charges that he took a 13-year-old girl across state lines for sex, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

MINEOLA, N.Y. — In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

The Illinois General Assembly has until June 9, to pass concealed carry legislation after a federal court overturns the state ban.

BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington lawyer has been suspended from practicing law for 90 days for falsifying a document in a divorce case.

Prominent Crestwood chiropractor Anthony Calandro was sentenced on April 23 to six years in prison and ordered to pay $1,018,746 restitution for billing 18 insurance companies for services patients did not receive.

(AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman, File). FILE - In this May 23,1962 file photo, Billie Sol Estes, left, and his attorney John Cofer of Austin, Tex. are shown as they arrived at the federal court house in El Paso, Texas.

A dispute between Walker County, Ga., and its cities over how to split millions of dollars in sales tax revenue over 10 years took a step forward recently when an out-of-county judge was appointed to hear the case.

LEWISTON — The U.S. Attorney’s Office honored the Lewiston Police Department, Lewiston Patrolman Ryan Rawstron, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, the Central Maine Violent Crime Task Force and others involved in the nearly yearlong Project Hot Spot during a formal ceremony in Portland on Wednesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The tea party has won the first round in a lawsuit that questions the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange that Gov. Steve Beshear set up last year by executive order.

Their "Blueprint for a Safer North Carolina" outlines a need for more money, prosecutors to keep residents safe.

A Franklin Circuit Court judge Thursday gave the Cabinet for Health and Family Services 30 days to justify each piece of information it wants to redact from 140 files of child fatalities and near-fatalities it has already been ordered to provide to The Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader.

Anthony Chiasson, who authorities said made Level Global Investors, a Connecticut hedge fund that he cofounded, nearly $70 million in illegal profit through insider trading, leaves court in New York after he was sentenced Monday to 61/2 years in prison.

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee did something no other lawmaker has done publicly: he offered the governor his list of "confirmable" nominees for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Byron Scherf and his lawyers don't dispute that he strangled a corrections officer to death with an amplifier cord in the prison chapel of the Washington state Reformatory at Monroe.

PHOENIX (AP) — Testimony is set to resume in Jodi Arias' murder trial as the prosecution continues with its rebuttal case ahead of closing arguments.        

VISTA, Calif. — A Menifee man who was under the influence of marijuana when he caused a head-on crash that killed a 53-year-old Oceanside woman two days before Christmas was sentenced Thursday. A judge sentenced 22-year-old Jonathon David Roberts to …

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- A court hearing for a Junction City minister charged in several child molestation cases involving young boys has been pushed back.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says he's not surprised the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to revive portions of Alabama's immigration law.        

While two-wheeled competitors whiz almost silently through a Chattanooga road course this weekend, another world-class, bi-wheeled event will have competitors thundering up and down a treacherous Sequatchie Valley mountainside.

MICHAEL KIRKLAND || UPI Senior Legal Affairs Writer WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- Does Islamic law, Sharia, have a place in American courts? A lot of state legislatures don't think so, and there is a large movement to ban its application in the domestic courts, state and federal.

What's the price of justice? In Louisville taxpayers are spending millions of dollars a year defending accused criminals who can't afford an attorney. In fact an increasing number of accused criminals are getting a free defense. One that can be very effective.

Nation & World briefing WASHINGTON -- After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in

The Floyd County Board of Education unanimously voted Friday to uphold its superintendent’s recommendation and not renew counselor Gilda Day’s contract — a decision her attorney said she intends to...

Jurors are into their second day of deliberations at a civil trial in Chicago where an 87-year-old grandmother alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a condominium deal.

He resigned from his executive committee seat with the Jefferson County Democratic Party.

Barna Guzy & Steffen, Ltd. seeks to better assist clients and expand clientele with addition of new Litigation/Employment lawyer, Jennifer C. Moreau. (PRWeb May 23, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10755102.htm

The Indiana Supreme Court today ruled Indiana's limit on the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded in lawsuits is constitutional.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Lottery Commission says the state Supreme Court should dismiss a lawsuit about the lottery's name. Assistant Attorney General David Curran on Thursday asked the justices to dismiss Alpha Marketing's lawsuit after a lower court last year refused to do so.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Waynesville, Mo., couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in a nearly $414,000 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Pulaski and Laclede counties.

HELENA — A man who helped fight suspicious fires in the Helena area, even though he was not a member of the responding fire departments, was charged Thursday with setting a dozen fires. Frederick James Maw V, 18, made an initial appearance Thursday in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court on 12 counts of arson. His bail was set at $100,000.

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University.A short time later, the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:56:33 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Color/BlackColor/BlackAshley YAKIMA, Wash. — A convicted sex offender with a history of exploiting teenage girls was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for failing to register. It was Tommy Ashley’s third conviction for the same offense. The 57-month sentence, handed...

The man convicted of killing a Georgia National Guardsman a year ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.