The Indiana Supreme Court until Tuesday had never directly addressed the issue of whether two sentences of life imprisonment without parole can be imposed consecutively under Indiana law. Justices decided today that I.C. 35-50-1-2(c) permits it.
Through his death in a gun battle with police, the Orlando nightclub gunman deprived his victims' families of the chance for a trial that could have helped to channel grief, offer a sense of justice or provide answers for the bloodshed. But some touched by other mass shootings in which the killers have died say they are grateful to be spared the extended, emotionally grueling legal proceedings.
A trial for a man accused of killing a 22-year-old Indiana University student likely will be held in Brown County despite his lawyer's concerns about a biased jury.
A 19-year-old Indianapolis man has been charged with killing three people over four days, and authorities say he was inspired by the horror movie "The Purge."
A judge may decide this week whether to delay the trial of a Bloomington man accused of killing an Indiana University student.
Arguments continued Tuesday in the case of a Los Angeles man prosecutors believe is the “Grim Sleeper,” charged with 10 deaths of African-American women and suspected in an untold number more.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a man’s murder conviction Thursday, finding the trial court had jurisdiction despite his status as a “Moorish American National Sovereign” and “secured party creditor.”
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam decision a man who pleaded guilty to two counts of murder among other charges can file a belated notice of appeal after the justices found “unique circumstances” in his case that did not allow him to file an appeal of his sentence when it was decided in 1987.
A northern Indiana teenager who was 12 years old when he helped kill his friend's stepfather has a chance at freedom.
An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to four consecutive life terms after his February guilty plea to four drug-related killings spared him a possible death sentence.
A man convicted of killing a 15-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found in an Indianapolis backyard was sentenced Friday to 84 years in prison.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a man’s death sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to brutally murdering a woman.
A man charged with murder in the killing of an Indianapolis police officer says he wants to represent himself.
A judge in Spencer presiding over the case of a man accused of abducting and killing a 1-year-old girl has ordered certain records sealed.
The Indiana Supreme Court said admission of an autopsy report and testimony by a pathologist who did not complete the report was not a violation of a man’s Sixth Amendment right to cross-examination and thus affirmed the trial court’s conviction of second-degree murder.
South Bend jury finds teenager convicted of murder should have sentence enhanced for criminal gang activity.
Jurors have convicted a seventh person of involvement with gunfire during a gang fight that resulted in a South Bend toddler being fatally wounded by a stray bullet.
An Indiana man drank whiskey with the uncle of a 1-year-old girl and then waited until the family fell asleep before abducting, raping and killing the toddler, prosecutors said Monday in court documents.
A Terre Haute man who served 25 years for killing his second wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his first wife.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider reinstating the conviction of a former police official charged in connection with his wife’s 1995 death in Ohio.