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High-Profile Cases

Texas Jury Sentences FedEx Driver Tanner Horner to Death for Killing 7-Year-Old Athena Strand

Under Texas law, the death sentence now moves automatically to the state’s top criminal court for review.

Horner’s Grandmother Apologizes as Jury Decision Nears in Athena Strand Sentencing

Jury Hears Defense Experts as Tanner Horner’s Sentencing Moves Toward Deliberations

Autopsy Confirms Homicide in D4vd Case, Citing Multiple Penetrating Wounds

D4vd Charged With First-Degree Murder, Special-Circumstance Counts in Teen’s Death

Jurors Hear Athena Strand’s Final Moments as Prosecutors Rest in Tanner Horner Sentencing

Ian Huntley Inquest Opens and Is Suspended After Metal-Bar Attack Revealed

Isabella Nardoni’s Mother Marks 18 Years With Tribute Urging Child Protection

Jarvis Butts Found Dead at Michigan Intake Prison Two Weeks After Sentencing

Soham Killer Ian Huntley Dies After HMP Frankland Workshop Assault

Police Investigate Vandalism of James Bulger’s Grave, Appeal for Witnesses

Police Identify Suspect After HMP Frankland Assault Leaves Ian Huntley in Serious Condition

Lilia Valutyte’s Killer Jailed for Life With 25-Year Minimum Term

April Jones' Sister Breaks Silence, Says Jailed Killer Should 'Suffer' After New Prison Attack

Parole Board Grants New Hearing for Jon Venables Next Month

Parole Board Orders Oral Hearing in Jon Venables Case After Justice Secretary Referral

Eleven Years After Conviction, Deathbed Testimony Anchors Robbie Middleton Case

Dahbia Benkired Given Life Without Parole for Rape, Torture and Murder of 12-Year-Old Lola Daviet

Levi Aron, Convicted Killer of Leiby Kletzky, Dies in New York State Custody

Florida Executes Bryan Jennings for 1979 Child Murder, Marking Record 16th Death This Year