Tom Cotton, a Second Amendment Champion, Proposes a 5-Year Mandatory Minimum for Violating Arbitrary Gun Bans
Although the Arkansas senator claims to be targeting "violent felons," his draconian bill would affect many people who pose no threat.
Although the Arkansas senator claims to be targeting "violent felons," his draconian bill would affect many people who pose no threat.
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Civil liberties groups argue that debt-based license suspensions are unfair and illogical since they deprive people of transportation, preventing them from earning money to pay off debts.
The 75 commutations announced today, while impressive compared to the pitiful records of previous presidents, pale beside a huge backlog of petitions.
Meanwhile in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court delays a planned execution by firing squad.
Jonathan Wall, whose federal trial begins on May 2, notes that many people openly engage in similar conduct with impunity.
Due to a lack of access to lethal injection drugs, Richard Moore had to choose between the electric chair and getting shot through the heart.
A new report shows wrongfully convicted people serving 1,849 years behind bars across the United States before being released last year.
The Supreme Court nominee's critics say she clearly did, but several federal appeals courts disagree.
The mindlessly punitive senator grilled Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson about her resentencing of a drug offender.
Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The senator argues that questioning sex offender policies "endangers our children."
The Supreme Court nominee raised serious constitutional concerns about laws that punish sex offenders after they complete their sentences.
The Missouri senator's attack on the Supreme Court nominee elides crucial distinctions and ignores widespread judicial criticism of child pornography sentences.
A new report emphasizes that the U.S. would still have a very high incarceration rate even if all drug war prisoners were released.
The record number of reduced sentences still represented a tiny share of the federal prison population.
Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn't insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial.
The Trump administration's revival appeared to be an outlier. Executions are becoming more and more rare.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos faced harsh punishment under the state’s mandatory minimum sentences for insisting on the right to a trial.
Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line.
Colorado First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said she pursued the punishment after Aguilera-Mederos insisted on his right to trial.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos is set to die in prison, thanks to Colorado's mandatory sentencing laws.
A new bill would transfer the review of petitions from the Justice Department to a presidentially appointed board.
The annual photo op takes on cruel undertones as drug offenders continue to suffer under harsh federal prison sentences.
COVID-19 has led to foot dragging in implementing some FIRST STEP Act reforms.
Coercive plea deals trample on defendants' Sixth Amendment rights.
In exchange, Jones shall “never again be eligible to apply for, be considered for, or receive any additional commutation, pardon, or parole.”
John Marion Grant convulsed and vomited as he was put to death.
A Supreme Court ruling requires due process before sending these people back to jail. That’s not happening in Montgomery County.
Raquel Esquivel, convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 2009, was put on home confinement during COVID-19.
The ruling won't help him much, because he also was convicted of a more serious charge, based on a "particularly weird" form of the felony murder doctrine.
People convicted of possessing child pornography receive long sentences, but new data suggest they are rarely arrested for contact offenses after their release.
Ernest Johnson is scheduled to be executed today.
For every 8.3 executions in the United States, one innocent person on death row has been exonerated.
One at Rikers, one at a nearby jail barge, marking 12 deaths this year
Threatening somebody with prison for refusing a shot is no way to end a pandemic.
Arthur Johnson spent his entire adult life in jail for a murder he says he was coerced to confess to by police.
Federal espionage laws are used once again to punish a whistleblower.
The CARES Act allowed home release of nonviolent inmates during the pandemic. But after it's over, many will have to go back unless their sentences are commuted.
That's illegal, says a new lawsuit.
Nevertheless, it will at least temporarily stop the federal death penalty.
A jury convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder and manslaughter in April, nearly a year after Floyd's death set off nationwide protests.
The EQUAL Act would finally end one of the worst legacies of the 1980s drug war and clean up one of the biggest stains on Joe Biden's record.
A new brief asks the Supreme Court to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
The case is a good reminder of the far-reaching effects of the war on drugs.