Criminal Justice

Policy

A Lethal Injection of Reality

Medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2014 7:00 AM

Sentencing

Obama's DEA Chief Refuses To Support Drug Sentencing Reforms

The Huffington Post | 5.6.2014 12:46 PM

Cory Booker

Cory Booker Can Talk Donald Sterling, Mum on Newark Deputy Chief Accused of Racism, Corruption

Ed Krayewski | 5.6.2014 12:03 PM

Civil Liberties

Are New York Cops Raiding a Dead Man's Home Just to Squeeze His Son?

J.D. Tuccille | 5.6.2014 11:30 AM

Politics

Update: School District Sues County in Case of Autistic Teen Entrapped for Selling Pot

Amanda Winkler | 5.5.2014 5:00 PM

Police Abuse

Houston Grand Jurors Subjected to Shooting Simulator to Prepare for Police Shooting Cases

Ed Krayewski | 5.5.2014 4:36 PM

Police Abuse

Cop T-Bones Passing Car, Driver Charged With DUI After Being Honest

Ed Krayewski | 5.5.2014 12:46 PM

Policy

After Life Sentence, Juror Says, "Had I known…I would have had to have found not guilty."

J.D. Tuccille | 5.5.2014 12:04 PM

Police Abuse

Rapper Meek Mill Loses Lawsuit Over 10-Hour Traffic Stop in Philadelphia

Ed Krayewski | 5.2.2014 3:25 PM

Civil Liberties

NYPD Cops Can't Stop Drunkenly Shooting at People This Week

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.2.2014 2:40 PM

Policy

Relatively Small Social Networks Responsible for Large Portion of Shootings in Chicago, New York City, According to Study, Police

Ed Krayewski | 5.2.2014 1:05 PM

Policy

Friday Funnies: Good News Is Relative

Chip Bok | 5.2.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Why America Leads the World at Putting People in Cages

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2014 9:35 PM

Policy

Botched Execution Timeline Raises Questions

Lauren Krisai | 5.1.2014 7:08 PM

Police Abuse

Cops Harass Wheelchair-Bound Vet, Take His Cellphone Out of Spite, Arrest Him on Probation Violation After Story Goes Viral

Ed Krayewski | 5.1.2014 5:33 PM

Police Abuse

Jury Decides Pittsburgh Arrest Was Wrongful But Dismisses Brutality Claim; Both Sides Want Reversal

Ed Krayewski | 5.1.2014 1:54 PM

Policy

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Expands Police Power to Conduct Warrantless Car Searches

Damon Root | 5.1.2014 11:31 AM

Police Abuse

Dash Cam Shows Moments Before And After Deputy Kills 19-Year-Old Girl (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | 5.1.2014 11:12 AM

Policy

Is the Death Penalty Constitutional?

Damon Root | 4.30.2014 4:06 PM

Politics

Oklahoma's Horrific Botched Execution Could Have Been Prevented

Lauren Krisai | 4.30.2014 3:21 PM

Police Abuse

Chicago Man Claims Cops Planted a CELLPHONE on Him to Justify Shooting Him in the Back

Ed Krayewski | 4.30.2014 2:43 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Agents Beat Retiree at Border Crossing, Claim His Wounds Were 'Self-Inflicted'

J.D. Tuccille | 4.30.2014 1:02 PM

Politics

Mediaite: 'Here Are the Best Moments from Hannity's Clownshow Weed Panel'

Matt Welch | 4.30.2014 12:47 PM

Policy

Stop, Frisk, Repeat

NY cops won't stop

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

SWAT, Unrestrained

Prison abuse

Ed Krayewski | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Obama Finds His Clemency Pen

Commutations could be the president's most admirable legacy.

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Border Patrol Threatens Mother, Slashes Her Tire, as Kids Watch

J.D. Tuccille | 4.29.2014 5:37 PM

Civil Liberties

Cop Fired After Being Caught on Camera Choking Student

Zenon Evans | 4.29.2014 3:25 PM

Politics

The Most Interesting Man in Buzzfeed's Paul Ryan Profile Is Not Paul Ryan

Poverty and the right

Jesse Walker | 4.29.2014 12:32 PM

Death Penalty

Study: One Out of Twenty Five Death Row Inmates Is Innocent

Ed Krayewski | 4.29.2014 11:19 AM

Policy

'A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail': Justice Breyer Keeps Siding with the Cops in Fourth Amendment Cases

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 3:50 PM

Policy

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Death in Egypt

Matthew Feeney | 4.28.2014 3:28 PM

War on Drugs

DOJ to Attempt to Determine Just How Racist Police Are

Federal grants will be offered for more research.

Scott Shackford | 4.28.2014 2:30 PM

Policy

An End to New York's War on Condoms?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.28.2014 10:53 AM

Civil Liberties

Dash Cam Released in Fatal Police Shooting That Was Ruled Justified, No 'Warrants' Mentioned at Inquest

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2014 4:41 PM

Civil Liberties

Police Union Wants To Know Why Perp 'Forced' Cop To Pummel Him

Zenon Evans | 4.25.2014 2:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Plainclothes Philly Cops Shoot At Pizza Delivery Guy 14 Times

Ed Krayewski | 4.24.2014 1:10 PM

War on Drugs

Virginia State Police Raid Grandmother's House for Drugs, Make an Arrest Two Doors Down

Ed Krayewski | 4.24.2014 11:35 AM

Policy

Arizona Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Convict Unimpaired Pot Smokers of Driving Under the Influence

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 4:58 PM

Police Abuse

Elderly Man Calls 911 to Get Ambulance for Wife, Says Police Beat Him Up Instead

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2014 4:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Lapel Video Unavailable in Third Fatal Albuquerque Police Shooting in Past Month

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2014 2:37 PM

Policy

New Clemency Policy Could Free 'Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands' of Drug War Prisoners (and Yes, That Would Be Constitutional)

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2014 2:04 PM

Policy

Of Course Recidivism Is High When Everything Is a Crime

Scott Shackford | 4.23.2014 11:53 AM

Sentencing

Criteria Set for DOJ Reviews of Clemency Application

Have to be non-violent with no significant criminal history and already in jail 10 years

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2014 11:16 AM

Policy

Is a Major, Merciful Change in Presidential Pardon Policy Brewing?

Scott Shackford | 4.21.2014 4:00 PM

Policy

What's Wrong With Victims' Rights?

If victims get higher priority, something else will have to get a lower priority-resulting in fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions or more clogged court dockets.

Steve Chapman | 4.21.2014 7:00 AM

Criminal Justice

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Wrongfully Convicted of Murder, Dies at 76

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2014 2:42 PM

Politics

Court Documents Reveal Details of LAPD Incident with Photographer

Paul Detrick | 4.18.2014 3:24 PM