Jason J. Eaton, 49, was deemed competent to stand trial by an evaluator who conducted a psychiatric evaluation.

Thursday’s unanimous ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court was a victory for judicial transparency and for the principle that ...

Robert Roberson has gained bipartisan from lawmakers and medical experts who say he was convicted on faulty evidence of the ...

The Marshall Project reports on the evolving perception and status of the right for death penalty defendants to present ...

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A Boston woman was ordered held on $200 bail after being charged with threatening a prosecutor during her son’s arraignment ...

A Hyde Park woman was ordered held on bail after being charged with threatening a prosecutor during her son’s arraignment.

A Dorchester man who shot a man after an altercation at Boston Bowl in 2019 was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday ...

A man found suffering from a gunshot wound in Dorchester late Monday night has died, according to Boston police.

After a 4 week trial, a jury found Matthew Locke, 38, officially guilty on Friday on 4 counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of West Brookfield mother and her 3 children.

Smith's federal criminal cases against Trump were upended by the election, as the Justice Department's longstanding policy is ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing her toddler daughter is “actually innocent” of murder and should be freed from ...