The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.
"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
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The state's "arbitrary requirement to house all male death row prisoners in permanent solitary confinement does not promote safety and security, is inconsistent with correctional best practices, and serves no penological purpose," the lawsuit claims.
"It's time to address the fact that this is a system that needs better oversight on numerous fronts," Gov. Katie Hobbs said in a Friday press release.
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.
"Under the new rule, the State would have been able to prolong the botched execution process indefinitely," the Equal Justice Initiative wrote in a press release.
Thousands of local, state, and federal law-enforcers have access to sensitive financial data.
Any unjustified killing by the government demands public attention. But fatal shootings by police used to be much more common.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
A North Carolina detective may have inhaled a significant amount during a drug bust.
Justice Richard Bernstein said Pete Martel's hiring as clerk was unacceptable because "I'm intensely pro-law enforcement."
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Today's scheduled execution is getting attention because she's trans. But the bigger story here is how she was sentenced to die.
While rising crime created headwinds for candidates who supported criminal justice reform, the apocalyptic storm never quite arrived.
"The most valuable thing taken away while in prison is time," says the author of Corrections in Ink.
Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.
Enforcing all the laws, all the time.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a resolution to study applying tougher zoning restrictions to new shops as a way of cutting down on crime.
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.
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