The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Preliminary data shows the murder rate fell nearly 20% from 2024, likely making it the lowest rate since reliable national data began to be collected in 1960.

Burke has been charged with one count each of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains. The criminal complaint also includes special circumstance allegations of murder of a witness, murder for ...

While 68% see the death penalty as morally justified for those committing murder, 59% say it doesn't deter serious crimes – and there are wide partisan gaps on both questions.

A judge has pushed the murder trial of Anna Kepner’s stepbrother from September to early November to give her accused stepbrother’s team more time to investigate. Timothy Hudson, 16, was detained as a juvenile on Feb.

A San Francisco Bay Area man has been found not guilty of murder but was convicted of other charges in connection with the fentanyl overdose death of a teenager.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, accused of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur.

A 26-year-old man was indicted on a first-degree murder charge Monday, more than two years after his girlfriend was chased and shot in a Baltimore County parking lot. Amir Johnson was taken into custody on Aug.

Kayvon Briscoe Hall was given 22½ to 50 years in prison.