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CHARLESTON — In the days after the 2015 massacre at Emanuel AME Church, Nadine Collier did something few could imagine: she forgave her mother’s killer. Her public act of forgiveness — offered by a ...

More than two years after a young mother was gunned down in Southeast Portland, her family came face-to-face with the man ...

The new wife of a convicted double murderer screamed as her husband was executed in front of her, before the distraught woman ...

Joseph Amador was sentenced in 2004 for the murder of Christina Deal of Oregon, who was found dead on Sept. 28, 2003.

The drug dealer who sold Matthew Perry his final batch of ketamine tried to save face before she received her sentence on Wednesday, April 8. In a letter, Jasveen Sangha, also known as "the Ketamine ...

Though Angelina O'Mara will be in prison for the rest of her life, she speaks from behind bars on her wish to be forgiven for the wrong she's done and the lives she's taken.

Thanks to a restorative justice programme, Joan Scourfield is sharing a stage with the man who killed her son to talk about ...

Can forgiving someone today leave you with an improved sense of well-being a year from now? A new study of residents of 22 countries says yes. The caveat, though, is that the size of the impact varies ...

In New York City, some of the most vulnerable incarcerated people will now have dedicated hospital beds and access to medical care like never before. Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced ...

One case reveals how technology is reshaping justice, and why access to better tools can mean the difference between freedom ...

Steve Koch never thought of himself as a grudge-holder. Still, certain moments endured: his mother’s harsh words his senior year of high school, the neighbor who publicly slighted him, the Ford ...