CRIMINAL LAW

Canada's murder rate in 2010 fell to a 44-year low of just 1.62 per 100,000 people, official data showed on Wednesday, just a day after the government said it would ease the country's strict gun laws.

Alfredo Astiz, Argentina's infamous Blond Angel of Death, and 11 other death squad members from the 1970s were jailed for life on Wednesday

Nearly a month after being cleared in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox will have a reunion with her former Italian boyfriend and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito.

International Criminal Court deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is one of four candidates on a shortlist to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court when his term ends next year.

The California Board of Parole has denied offering a compassionate release to infamous Onion Field killer Gregory Powell during a Tuesday meeting. Powell, who is now serving a life sentence, was convicted of killing a cop named Ian Campbell around 48 years ago.

An extradition treaty with the United States is not biased against British criminal suspects, a judge-led review said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to campaigners fighting to stop a computer hacker being sent to stand trial in America.

An NYPD officer was and charged with federal crime for allegedly violating a man's civil rights.

The manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor has been put on hold for one day due to a death in the family of one prosecution witness, a court official said on Sunday.

A day after Bishop Robert Finn of the Catholic diocese Kansas City-St. Joseph was indicted on a charge of failing to report a priest's child abuse, the Vatican said Sunday it would not attempt to interfere with the legal process.

A day after California prison officials declared a 3-week-old hunger strike by thousands of convicts over, an inmate advocacy group said on Friday that at least 150 prisoners were still refusing to eat.

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will deploy 100 combat-equipped U.S. soldiers to central Africa to assist, train and provide intelligence in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda to help hunt down the leaders of the feared and brutal insurgency, the Lord's Resistance Army.

Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed a shocking autopsy photograph of Michael Jackson in court as the involuntary manslaughter trial against his personal doctor Conrad Murray continues.

Amanda Knox met up with her former boyfriend David Johnsrud (who bears a striking resemblance to Italian lover Rafaelle Sollectio).

The family of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student who was found brutally murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy, is reportedly planning to sue American student Amanda Knox, for £8 million. Kercher's family intends to sue Knox for looking to profit, financially, from a number of media and entertainment-related deals that could pave the way to Knox publishing a book or authorizing a film on her alleged murder charges.

One of the eight jurors responsible for overturning the guilty verdict of Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher said he never believed that they were guilty.

After spending four years behind bars in a Perugia, Italy prison, Amanda Knox is now saying that she was sexually harassed by a high-ranking Italian prison administrator, 48 Hours Mystery Correspondent Peter Van Sant reported on CBS' The Early Show.

Sheehan's court case, which ended on Thursday with a jury exonerating her of second-degree murder charges, illustrated the legal recourse available to women who defend themselves against domestic violence with lethal means.

An Italian judge declared the murder of Meredith Kercher, an unsolved mystery, as Amanda Knox returned home to Seattle on Wednesday, but the Kercher family disagrees.

Amanda Knox is receiving countless offers for interviews and book deals as she struggles to reclaim a normal life in Seattle, Washington.