Three US citizens are among 37 defendants sentenced to death by a military court for their role in a May failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The punishments were handed down months after the Democratic Republic of Congo lifted a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.

Thirty-seven people - including three Americans and a Briton, have been sentenced to death over a DR Congo coup attempt.

Thirty-seven people - including three Americans and a Briton, have been sentenced to death over a DR Congo coup attempt.

The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including three Americans, a Brit, a Belgian and a Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on...

Two brothers from Nigeria helped run an online sextortion operation that prosecutors said resulted in the death of a high school student.

Two brothers from Nigeria helped run an online sextortion operation that prosecutors said resulted in the death of a high school student.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in the federal trial of three former Memphis officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre...

Two D.C. teens went to trial Thursday on charges they chased down and beat a disabled man to death last year in Northwest.