The sentencing comes three years to the day of the deadliest migrant tragedy in U.S. history.

Former Tampa Bay Rays star Wander Franco received his prison sentence after sexually abusing a 14-year-old.

Civil rights leaders are urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all death sentences in the state, as they held a rally on the steps of the state Capitol on Thursday.

Call grows for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end death penalty in California, reducing sentences to life without parole and addressing systemic discrimination.

A court in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, found baseball player Wander Franco — of the Tampa Bay Rays — guilty of abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor and imposed a two-year prison ...

Court’s Reasoning on Sentence While the High Court affirmed the conviction, it commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment, holding that the case did not fall under the “rarest of rare" category ...

Wander Franco, the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop charged in a sexual abuse case, was found guilty on Thursday but received a two-year suspended sentence.

Marcus Monzo, a 37-year-old Spanish-Brazilian, has been convicted of murdering 14-year-old British-Nigerian schoolboy Daniel Anjorin in a brutal sword attack in northeast London. Monzo now faces a ...

“This announcement is a death sentence for the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa,” said Caroline Pearce, head of Survival International, in a statement.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco reacts after hearing his sentence during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Thursday, June 26, 2025.