Jose Ibarra was found guilty in the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

When Deborah Gonzalez ran to be elected District Attorney of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit in 2020, she made no bones about her position on capital punishment.

The case over the killing of a Georgia nursing student fueled the national debate over immigration during this year's presidential race.

In Laken Riley’s murder case that found Jose Antonio Ibarra guilty, her mother addressed the perpetrator in a victim impact statement before he was sentenced to life in prison.

If you haven’t been following along with the case of Laken Riley, the brutal murder of the Georgia college student back in February touched off a firestorm over illegal immigration after it was revealed that the man arrested for her murder, Jose Ibarra, was a Venezuelan national who was in the United States illegally.

Wednesday brought the closing of the case into the killing of Laken Riley, a nursing student who was killed on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens at the hands of Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

The last moments before Laken Riley was killed while out on a run on the University of Georgia's campus were shown in court Tuesday, on the third day of the trial involving the murder of the 22-year-old nursing student. The Augusta University student was found dead in a wooded area on the Athens campus on Feb. 22.

Going for a solo run as a female shouldn’t be dangerous. But the murders of Laken Riley, Mollie Tibbets, Karina Vetrano, and many more other women in recent years remind us it is. Andrea Cavallier rep