The Randall County District Court reported that Erik Mitchell Rivas was found guilty of "capital murder" and sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the August 2022 shooting of 36-year-old Shereena Ann Webster that occurred in south Amarillo.
Following a criminal trial, a man in Amarillo was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences and two 20-year sentences after being charged on 25 separate charges, all for sexual assaults.
A Lancaster County man received a second life sentence after being found guilty of stabbing a 54-year-old woman to death in May of 2016.
Phillips' attorneys claim the manslaughter sentence was "grossly disproportionate" and violated the defendant's Eighth Amendment rights.
The man accused in the death of a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detective in 2016 has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in court on Wednesday, April 24.
A pro-abortion activist was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison last week for firebombing a Wisconsin pro-life organization in 2022.
District Attorney Erik Narasenko announced Friday a life sentence plus 27 years without parole for David Guadalupe Calderon for the first-degree murder of Edwin Herrera, according to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office (VC DA's Office).
"In my 21 years as a judge, I have not seen a more pre-meditated murder and a more relentless pursuit of a victim," said Judge Timothy Sanner, who presided over the case, in the press release.
“There is no chance here for you,” the judge told Brahm as he sat silently at the defense table. “You show no indication that you can ever be rehabilitated. Sir, your actions were depraved. They showed a supreme indifference to human life. I find you acted with physical and mental cruelty.
“There is no chance here for you,” the judge told Brahm as he sat silently at the defense table. “You show no indication that you can ever be rehabilitated. Sir, your actions were depraved. They showed a supreme indifference to human life. I find you acted with physical and mental cruelty.
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in September from a campground […]
A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year