In 2009, Raleigh resident Hasson Bacote was sentenced to death by an almost all-white jury in Johnston County after he shot and killed an 18-year-old during a robbery two years prior. A year later, ...

BLOOMINGTON — A judge denied a challenge Wednesday to a 92-year sentence handed down in 2008 to a 17-year-old convicted in the brutal rape of a Bloomington woman. In his hour-long oral opinion, Judge ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court will consider whether some automatic life sentences for those convicted of murder violate constitutional protections for defendants, the justices said ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s high court will consider if some automatic life sentences for those convicted of murder violate constitutional protections for defendants, the justices said Friday. The ...