A Jigawa State High Court has sentenced a rapist, Abubakar Muhd, popularly known as Akuya, to death by hanging and ordered him to pay N5 million in compensation to his 15-year-old victim. PUNCH Online ...

BARGARH: In a landmark judgement, the Padampur POCSO Court in Bargarh on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old youth to death for the rape and murder of a six-year-old minor girl that had sent shockwaves in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A proposed law could mean the death penalty for more child rapists in Tennessee. “It’s another tool,” the bill’s sponsor, State Rep. Greg Martin, said. A new bill at the ...

A man initially sentenced to death in 1975 for the rape and murder of a 17-year-old Worcester girl after they got in a car crash has seen his case reconsidered more than once. But even after 50 years ...

An Alabama man was sentenced to nearly 1,000 years in prison after he made home videos of himself sexually abusing, sodomizing, and raping a child under the age of 12. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit ...

STARKE, Fla. -- A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in Florida's 16th execution this year. Bryan Frederick ...

A Rhode Island man who faked his death to avoid rape charges has been sentenced to serve at least five years in prison despite insisting that he’s innocent. Nicholas Rossi was sentenced for one of two ...

I'm here outside the district courthouse in Salt Lake City, where *** man who appeared to fake his own death and flee the United States to avoid arrest was just sentenced to at least 5 years in prison ...

Nicholas Rossi, who appeared to have faked his own death and fled to Scotland while facing two rape allegations, will serve at least five years in a Utah state prison. That could become a life ...

A Utah judge sentenced alleged Rhode Island conman Nicholas Alahverdian, who was charged under the name Nicholas Rossi, to five years to life in prison for the rape of a 26-year-old Salt Lake County ...

A Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid rape charges is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on one of two rape convictions in Utah. Nicholas Rossi, 38, faces ...