Alabama Botched His Execution. Now He Wants To Die Differently.
On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with an Alabama death-row inmate who, after surviving a botched lethal injection attempt last year, says he wants to die by gas chamber instead.
On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with an Alabama death-row inmate who, after surviving a botched lethal injection attempt last year, says he wants to die by gas chamber instead.
After an array of botched and unsuccessful executions, the state's Department of Corrections says its ready to start executing inmates again.
Author Alex Cody Foster went deep with McAfee for months in an ill-fated attempt to ghostwrite his memoir.
Author Leigh Goodmark's end goals of abolishing prisons and defunding police are hard to swallow.
Prosecutors dropped the case after interviewing 35 witnesses who contradicted the accuser.
Opposing sides of the debate around a New York City subway homicide have found unlikely common ground.
Her viral video received 4 million views—and the police's attention.
The state's own attorney general has said Glossip deserves a new trial.
If you don't like San Francisco, that's fine, but don't tell tall tales about it.
Knives Out director Rian Johnson offers a twisted vision of the American economy as one populated by makers and moochers.
Enjoy a special video episode recorded live from New York City’s illustrious Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground.
Two damning investigations and a request from the state attorney general haven't been enough to stop the execution.
In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.
"While I respect the Court of Criminal Appeals' opinion, I am not willing to allow an execution to proceed despite so many doubts," said Oklahoma's attorney general.
The smell of weed in the streets is a sign of progress and tolerance, not decline.
"They put that man in that cell, left him there to die," said an attorney for the man's family. "And that's exactly what happened."
Today's oral argument in Counterman v. Colorado--the "true threats" case--highlights the importance of protecting stalking victims from objectively threatening communications.
"They had a duty to protect her," says Ta'Neasha Chappell's sister. "She was not attended to because she was a Black woman and they didn't feel like she was worth getting any attention."
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
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After a century of Democratic mismanagement, Chicago is hemorrhaging population, catastrophically underfunding massive pension promises, and taxing the bejeebus out of its crime-scarred residents.
"It is critical that Oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty," said the state's attorney general in a Thursday press release.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
Lakeith Smith's case epitomizes the issues with the "felony murder" doctrine.
The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated.
Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
"Even after his 2021 exoneration, Baltimore County prosecutors have opposed Clarence receiving compensation for the injustice of being wrongfully convicted," says an attorney representing the man.
Trump is charged with 34 criminal counts connected to the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
"Defendant Huber intentionally fired his service weapon at Decedent and killed him with gunfire while Decedent posed no threat of death or serious bodily harm to Defendant Huber," the lawsuit states.
The ADL's annual audit of "antisemitic incidents," which counted a record number last year, is apt to be influenced by changes in methodology and reporting behavior.
One officer was fired and another was placed on restricted duty this week, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
Federal, state, and local officials will always threaten to weaponize the state against private actors they don't like. The "Kia Challenge" provides the latest example.
"The firing squad, in my opinion, is beneath the dignity of the state of Idaho," said one state senator. "We have to find a better way."
An important and compelling new book on qualified immunity and other obstacles to holding law enforcement officers accountable for rights violations.
Three years after "15 days to slow the spread," things almost look like they're back to normal. But they're not.
"What I saw today was heartbreaking," said the victim's mother. "It was disturbing, it was traumatic. My son was tortured."
New bills in six states showcase some right and wrong ways to help sex workers, from full decriminalization to ramping up penalties for prostitution customers.
The former head of the NYPD and the LAPD talks about how bad leadership creates police brutality and why he's still against pot legalization.
Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.
Judges and prosecutors accused James and Jennifer Crumbley of negligent behavior despite the fact that school officials at the time reached many of the same judgments.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion with former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton about the new documentary "Gotham."
"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
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