In early 2025, AI-generated YouTube videos claimed to report two events: that Copeland collapsed in a courtroom "after hearing his sentence" and that he received a sentence of life imprisonment.

Lamenting a convicted murderer’s squandered potential, a judge in Mobile on Monday imposed a life prison sentence.

A judge sentenced Jon Miller, of Owatonna, Minnesota, to life in prison for the 1974 killing of Mary K. Schlais in western ...