Oregon's Governor Commutes Sentences of All State Death Row Inmates
Brown: “The state should not be in the business of executing people.”
Brown: “The state should not be in the business of executing people.”
Now the officer is trying to keep his identity secret under a state law intended to protect crime victims.
Seventeen retired federal judges, appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, filed a brief supporting his appeal.
Bradley Bass is facing 12 years in prison, despite the fact that he was doing his job as a school administrator.
There is little utility to charging 10-year-olds as adults, yet Wisconsin still mandates the practice in certain cases.
“You're cracking, you just drank too much,” said one officer as Randy Cox cried that his neck was broken.
Missouri law bans those under 21 from witnessing executions. Despite attempts to challenge the law, 19-year-old Khorry Ramey will be barred from attending her father's execution on Tuesday.
Biden should exercise his pardon power to help some of the people whose lives his criminal justice policies destroyed.
While the pause comes as a relief to those opposed to the death penalty, Ivey's full-throated defense of the practice makes it clear that she seeks only a temporary pause in executions, not an end to the policy.
Alvin Bragg has finally moved to stop prosecuting Tracy McCarter for murder.
If it comes down to a party-line vote, Republicans don't have enough seats in the state Senate to remove Krasner from office.
It's still the economy, stupid.
The court says a 51-year "life" sentence for a 2015 murder violated the Eighth Amendment.
The Atlas of Surveillance lets us monitor the agencies that snoop on the public.
For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
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Alex Villanueva was ousted after a single combative, troubled term. Voters also approved giving county leaders the power to remove future sheriffs.
In the event of prosecution, jury nullification allows regular people to exercise a veto over the power of the state.
After the latest reprieve from the governor, he’s scheduled for execution in February.
Apocalyptic attack ads about crime failed to drive a red wave, and criminal justice reform candidates were still successful in several local races around the country.
Gun control is 'the most racist practice in America,' says the Philadelphia native and community leader.
Voters told exit pollsters they had little confidence in the ability of either Fetterman or Oz to represent Pennsylvania.
The debate over bail has become a polarizing flash point. But as usual, the answer is more nuanced than either Republicans or Democrats would have their bases believe.
In her short, yet searing dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argues that the court should have granted the petition of an Ohio man sentenced to death after prosecutors hid a key witness' severe intellectual disability from jurors.
Unfortunately, in five separate cases today, they're outnumbered.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
In addition to six state charges, David DePape faces two federal charges, each punishable by decades in prison.
Voters will soon cast ballots on a constitutional amendment that seeks to explicitly remove any protections for abortion in the state's constitution.
When states misuse sex-offender registries and apply them to any crime that involves a child, individual rights are abused.
A federal judge denied qualified immunity for officers accused of making up charges to get money from fines.
The agency should be abolished and its employees sent to seek jobs in the private sector.
Norma Thornton of Bullhead City, Arizona, is suing for the right to help people in need.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September that will chip away at a policy that has long been criticized as enabling racially-motivated policing.
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Q&A with Philadelphia's district attorney, who is facing an impeachment threat because of rising crime.
Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?
The FBI changed the way it compiles data, and reporting law-enforcement agencies have yet to catch up.
Forensic techniques are nowhere near as reliable as cops shows pretend.