Evangelist Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in federal prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo was sentenced Friday in Texarkana, Arkansas.

South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

South Carolina’s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday. Thomas and Meeks Griffin were convicted of the 1913 murder of a white farmer in Chester County. Joyner came to Columbia from Dallas to plead their case. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

A Georgia death row inmate is asking the nation’s top court to halt his execution until it resolves an Alabama death penalty case he says could affect his legal challenge. Mark McClain asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay the execution because a ruling in the other case could “alter the legal prism” through which his case is viewed.

According to Investigator Charles Mulherin, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) is looking for an absconded sex offender. While on a surprise address verification, investigators with the RCSO Sex Offender Unit learned that Anthony Eugene Crawford had absconded.

The Georgia Department of Corrections has set Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. for the execution of a convicted Richmond County murderer. A warrant signed Thursday by a judge permits the state to execute 43-year-old Mark McClain at any time between noon Oct. 20 and noon Oct. 27 at the state prison in Jackson.

Prison officials say convicted sex offender, John Evander Couey, on death row for kidnapping, raping and burying a Florida girl alive has died of natural causes.

A Gainesville man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of at least $16 million in what authorities say is the largest fraud in Hall County’s history.

Before September 11th, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 was the symbol of terrorist savagery…270 died, many of them Americans. Thursday, a man convicted in the attack is on his way home to Libya, after serving just eight years of a life sentence. Officials in Scotland freed him on compassionate grounds, drawing a protest from the United States, and outrage from victims’ families. ABC News’ Linsey Davis has more in our look around the world.

A South Carolina man is awaiting a new hearing after his 1996 death sentence was overturned.

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a condemned Georgia inmate’s request that his execution be delayed, as he attempts to prove his innocence. The inmate, Troy Davis, has gained international support for his long-standing claim that he did not murder a Savannah police officer, nearly two decades ago. Don Logana has more on the case.

Family members are speaking out against the conviction of Ehsanul Islam Sadequee on charges of aiding terrorist groups.

A hometown celebration for Michael Vick in Virginia has been postponed. An organizer for the “Michael Vick Community Celebration” scheduled for Saturday said the job-hunting former NFL quarterback informed him Monday he could not appear at the Newport News event because of a conflict.

A hometown celebration for Michael Vick in Virginia has been postponed. An organizer for the “Michael Vick Community Celebration” scheduled for Saturday said the job-hunting former NFL quarterback informed him Monday he could not appear at the Newport News event because of a conflict.

A convicted Harlem High School coach is being released from jail Friday, after her conviction on sexual assault on a female student was overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court, in June.