Oklahoma Pulls Back the Relentless Pace of Planned Executions
A plan to put 25 inmates to death over two years is reconsidered.
A plan to put 25 inmates to death over two years is reconsidered.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission might make medical neglect a qualifying condition for compassionate release.
It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury.
Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
A last-minute injunction gets tossed, allowing the state to give Robert Fratta a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Oregon was one of only two states that allowed for non-unanimous guilty verdicts until the Supreme Court outlawed them in 2020.
Today's scheduled execution is getting attention because she's trans. But the bigger story here is how she was sentenced to die.
Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.
Although both bills have broad bipartisan support, they never got a vote in the Senate and were excluded from the omnibus spending bill.
The former Forth Worth officer shot Atatiana Jefferson through a window of her home. He said he thought she was a burglar.
The legal distinction between the smoked and snorted forms of cocaine never made sense.
A compromise to cram crack sentencing reform into the year-end omnibus spending bill fell apart at the last minute.
The attorney general's memo to prosecutors is an improvement, but it is no substitute for legislation.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
The move comes as legislation flounders in Congress to end the crack-powder sentencing disparity once and for all.
Brown: “The state should not be in the business of executing people.”
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Seventeen retired federal judges, appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, filed a brief supporting his appeal.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit disagrees on whether the word "image" is ambiguous.
The court says a 51-year "life" sentence for a 2015 murder violated the Eighth Amendment.
For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.
After the latest reprieve from the governor, he’s scheduled for execution in February.
It’s a little thing, but thousands of people end up in jail over these types of avoidable technical violations.
In addition to six state charges, David DePape faces two federal charges, each punishable by decades in prison.
When states misuse sex-offender registries and apply them to any crime that involves a child, individual rights are abused.
The president supports the law that could send his son to prison for lying about his personal habits while buying a firearm.
The war on drugs conspires with the war on guns to make a mockery of justice.
Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
The Supreme Court may soon consider if acquitted conduct sentencing is illegal.
A former guidance counselor served six years of a 25-year sentence thanks to a public defender's incompetence.
Criminal justice groups say the numbers vindicate their push to keep those people from being sent back to prison.
After an embarrassing failure for the FBI counterterrorism program, federal prosecutors won convictions against two of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Former Judges Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan are now serving lengthy prison sentences for what became known as the "kids-for-cash" scandal.
Delaying Glossip's execution until December allows the courts to consider new evidence that might prove his innocence.
Travelers caught with small amounts of marijuana at the U.S. border face much less severe punishment.
The Senate majority leader has repeatedly blocked a bill that would address the robbery threat to state-licensed pot shops.
That new crime, which is punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison, includes receipt of firearms by "prohibited persons."
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act increases the penalties for violating arbitrary firearm bans.
The vast majority of federal firearm offenses involve illegal possession, often without aggravating conduct or a history of violence.
Despite the stakes, the former Minneapolis police officer could not bring himself even to feign regret for his actions.
Unsatisfied by the outcome of one case, the feds secured a much more severe penalty the second time around.
A federal judge rules against effort to stop use of three-drug cocktail.
Although the Arkansas senator claims to be targeting "violent felons," his draconian bill would affect many people who pose no threat.