Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward declined to meet one-on-one with the Indiana Parole Board, saying he wanted to spare the family of his victim from traveling to the state prison in Michigan City for the ...

A convicted first-degree murderer who killed a convenience store owner in front of her 7-year-old daughter has been granted parole. Murder victim Kenia Melo (Herald archives) The Massachusetts Parole ...

The state’s parole board has released 39 “emerging adult” murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts ...

For decades, a Massachusetts man said he lied about why he set a 19-year-old woman on fire and killed her, stating that he “would no longer hide behind” certain excuses. But the Massachusetts Parole ...

For the first time in at least a decade, the Massachusetts Parole Board has issued no decisions in December on life sentence cases, leaving incarcerated individuals and victims’ families in limbo. The ...