Glenn Ford has been saying for 30 years that he is innocent in the 1983 slaying of a jeweler and watch repairman for whom he did yard work.
And now,…
Mar 11, 2014 10:30 PM CDT
Two New York City police unions that filed motions to intervene in the city’s stop-and-frisk litigation may use it as leverage in ongoing contract discussions, Capital…
Mar 10, 2014 8:32 PM CDT
Updated: Debo Adegbile’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been blocked amid controversy over the lawyer’s appellate work on behalf of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Mar 5, 2014 6:59 PM CST
Police in Tallahassee, Fla., have used a so-called stingray device 200 times to track suspects through their cellphones—not only without getting warrants but without telling the suspects or the courts…
Mar 3, 2014 7:55 PM CST
In the new, gentrified post-9/11 New York City, gone are the days when a visitor’s trip to Times Square might include aggressive panhandling, a mugging or an uncomfortable exchange with…
Mar 1, 2014 11:39 AM CST
Though many New Yorkers credited aggressive police tactics for a sharp reduction in street crime, policies like stop-and-frisk proved immensely unpopular in the city’s poorest precincts. In one eight-block area of Brooklyn, police made nearly 52,000 stops over a four-year period, resulting in a limited number of arrests. ©Kevin Downs/Demotix/Corbis
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Missouri was to use the anesthetic propofol to execute a serial killer but had to switch plans after an EU protest. AP Photo/Richard Vogel File
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Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Dominique C. Fabronius
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The Supreme Court held that it is cruel and unusual punishment for the government to execute a mentally retarded individual, but it never has explained how it is to be…
Feb 27, 2014 2:59 PM CST
A federal judge in Texas has struck down the state’s constitutional and statutory ban on same-sex marriage, agreeing with the plaintiffs that the ban violates their right to equal protection…
Feb 26, 2014 9:20 PM CST
Calling a junior high basketball coach’s short-hair rule for boys a violation of the constitutional right of equal protection under the law, a divided federal appeals court Monday reversed a…
Feb 24, 2014 11:35 PM CST
After news broke this week that a contractor was being sought by a Department of Homeland Security agency to create a computerized national database of information gathered by license-plate reading…
Feb 20, 2014 4:05 PM CST
A Georgia teen fatally shot by a police officer when he opened the front door of the family’s mobile home in Euharlee on Friday was holding a Wii remote, not…
Feb 19, 2014 9:15 PM CST
In a Wednesday court filing approved the same day by a Manhattan federal district court judge, the state of New York has agreed to sweeping reform of its solitary confinement…
Feb 19, 2014 8:20 PM CST