Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog

Jurors deliberated only three hours before voting for the death penalty for Stephen Barbee, who was convicted of killing his pregnant girlfriend and her seven-year-old son to keep his wife ... Read More

A man suspected in the death of his girlfriend's four-year-old son and who was listed on the FBI's Top 10 most wanted fugitives list, has been arrested in Mexico more ... Read More

Attorneys for Andrea Yates said she has rejected a plea bargain deal that would have allowed her to plead guilty or no contest to drowning her children and receive a ... Read More

Following a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Washington case, the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the resentencing of hundreds of repeat offenders because judges in their cases considered their ... Read More

A 36-year-old, female elementary school teacher in South Carolina has been arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor for having sex at school with ... Read More

A mistrial was declared in the trial of a woman who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for killing her 10-month-old daughter by cutting off her arms when the ... Read More

Actor Brad Renfro, who starred in movies "The Client" and "Tom and Huck," has been placed on three years probation and ordered into a drug treatment program after he entered ... Read More

A new book by a Boston journalist, who has been covering organized crime for 25 years, profiles the criminal career of a notorious gangster hitman who is No. 2 on ... Read More

In reaction to a virtual wave of cocaine being smuggled into the country and cocaine addiction reaching epidemic proportions in the 1980s, the U.S. Congress and many state legislatures adopted ... Read More

The execution of Michael Morales, who brutally murdered and raped 17-year-old Terri Winchell in 1981, has been postponed indefinitely by the state of California because officials could not comply with ... Read More

Andrea Yates' attorney filed 30 pre-trial motions including one that asks the judge to ban "any and all photographs" of her children from being shown to the jury during her ... Read More

The trial of Hugo Selenski, an ex-convict who has acquired a small but loyal following of fans in northeastern Pennsylvania, will begin this week almost three years after police discovered ... Read More

Judge Judith Atherton is considering whether to forcibly medicate Wanda Barzee, charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, to try to restore her mental competency so that she can stand ... Read More

The amateur photographer charged with the murder of 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl will not face the death penalty after prosecutors changed the charges to second-degree murder. The original ... Read More

A Minnesota actress has been charged in taking part in a scam that bilked $5.5 million out of 70 investors who were told a television series was being produced about ... Read More

After hearing 22 witnesses during more than three days of testimony in a preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Mary Ann O'Malley ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold 17-year-old Scott ... Read More

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to grant clemency for Michael Morales, who was convicted of the 1981 murder and rape of 17-year-old Terri Winchell. Morales is scheduled to be executed ... Read More

Catching Paulus and Joran Van Der Sloot in New York for a media interview, the parents of Natalee Holloway filed a lawsuit against the two in Manhattan's state Supreme Court ... Read More

A handcuffed and shackled Neil Entwistle entered a plea of not guilty to the first-degree murders of his wife and daughter the day after he was returned from England to ... Read More

A former housemate of the teen charged with killing Pamela Vitale testified at a preliminary hearing that he found a gruesome to-do list left in a dresser drawer used by ... Read More

Even in the most desirable apartment buildings, security is a concern. This quiz can help you determine if you are doing all that you can to make your apartment safe ... Read More

Another rural Alabama Baptist church was burned Saturday bringing the number of damaged or destroyed churches to 10 in the past eight days. The Beaverton Free Will Baptist Church in ... Read More

The decision to leave a child home alone takes thought, discussion and preparedness. Answering these simple questions can help you determine if your child is ready to stay home alone ... Read More

According to court papers, Neil Entwistle told Massachusetts police that he found the bodies of his slain wife Jan. 20 and daughter and considered killing himself, but decided to fly ... Read More

A Michigan 16-year-old, who stabbed his mother 111 times after she discovered he was trying to learn how to make a bomb, agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder in ... Read More

A federal judge rejected an appeal by Wayne Williams, the man convicted of killing two children in 1982 and who is suspected of being responsible for killing at least ... Read More

Neil Entwistle, whose wife and daughter were found shot to death and left under the bed covers in their Massachusetts home, has been arrested in England and charged with two ... Read More

Federal law enforcement agents are seeking a dark sport utility vehicle -- possibly and black or dark blue Nissan or Toyota -- in connection with the investigation into the burning ... Read More

A 22-year-old Ohio woman, who was a 15-year-old high school sophomore when she stabbed her newborn son to death and dumped his body in a flooded quarry, was sentenced to ... Read More

A Cleveland, Ohio doctor who disappeared three weeks after his wife's death a year ago has been indicted for aggravated murder for giving her cyanide in what she thought were ... Read More

Four more rural Alabama Baptist churches were damaged or destroyed by fire Tuesday bringing the total to nine suspected arsons since last Friday and making the case the top priority ... Read More

The Idaho public defender handling the triple murder trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III has requested that the trial be delayed until November to give his office more time to ... Read More

Susan Polk will be defending herself in her trial for the stabbing death of her husband, 70-year-old Frank (Felix) Polk in 2003, and a judge has set a new trial ... Read More

An 18-year-old Massachusetts teen who was wanted for a violent attack in a New Bedford gay bar was taken into custody by Arkansas police Saturday, but not before a shootout ... Read More

Actor Robert Blake has filed for bankruptcy two months after a civil court jury awarded $30 million in damages to the family of his murdered ex-wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, but ... Read More

Police are searching for 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida who they say dressed in all black, went into a New Bedford, Massachusetts gay bar and attacked patrons with a hatchet and ... Read More

A Missouri death row inmate, who confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing a 15-year-old who was waiting for a school bus in 1989, was granted a stay of execution by ... Read More

Services for Rachel Entwistle, 27, and her nine-month old daughter, Lillian Rose, were held at St. Peter's Church in Plymouth, Massachusetts Wednesday while the husband and father of the two ... Read More

Andrea Yates, who is waiting a new court-ordered new trial for drowning her children, will be able to leave jail and go to a mental hospital until her trial begins, ... Read More

A 46-year-old Tampa man has been sentenced to 200 years in federal prison for using the date-rape drug GHB to torture and sexually assault nine men he met in gay ... Read More