James Herard was sentenced to death in 2015. James Herard of Lauderhill, Florida, was sentenced to death in 2015 for ordering the murder of Eric Jean-Pierre, 39, as part of a “body count contest” with ...

The Florida Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of James Herard, who ordered the random 2008 execution of a restaurant worker walking home from a bus stop in Lauderhill. Herard, 34, was sentenced ...

Jeziah Blair-Taylor showed no emotion as the family of Delauntae Bryant, an innocent man who was shot dead for no apparent reason four years ago, spoke about the grief and heartache they’ve suffered ...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana — A white Louisiana man has received a life sentence for the apparently random killing of a Black man in a park. He also is accused of killing another Black man at a bus stop ...

A judge determined the 14-year sentence requested by the Crown for a series of random, sniper-like shootings in Regina was too high — but not by much. In the end, Regina Court of Queen’s Bench Justice ...

The 20-year-old man convicted in the random beating death of an innocent teen more than three years ago is expected to be sentenced as a youth — not as an adult, like the Crown has been pushing for.

Read comments under almost any story about a criminal sentencing, and you’re bound to see people blaming the judge for being too lenient, or too harsh, for the crime. “I see those comments a lot of ...

A lot happened in 2014. And we had a lot to say about it. And usually, it made sense. Because it possessed that valuable commodity known as context. Here, we take all that away with The Year in Short, ...

Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? A proximate cause is ...