Justice Elena Kagan broke ranks with her female colleagues and voted to deny a stay of execution for Teresa Lewis, who died by lethal injection in Virginia Thursday evening.
It’s been 50 years since Harper Lee published her now-famous book To Kill a Mockingbird. But her fictional tale of racial injustice, focused on a Southern lawyer’s efforts to defend…
Legal thriller author John Grisham is taking a look at a real life case of a woman who got the death penalty for plotting two murders carried out by two…
Still fighting what some observers considered a too-lenient “public warning” over her 2007 refusal to authorize a court clerk to accept a late execution-eve appeal, the top criminal court judge…
A Georgia federal judge re-examining the evidence has concluded that jurors would still find death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis guilty of murder, and new evidence to the contrary is “largely…
A mail room mix-up at Sullivan & Cromwell has led to dismissal of a pro bono death penalty case and a U.S. Supreme Court cert petition seeking to undo the…
A new study of North Carolina death sentences shows that defendants accused of killing whites are almost three times more likely to be sentenced to death than those accused of…
The top criminal appeals court judge in Texas was reprimanded today for refusing to accept a late appeal hours before an inmate was executed and hence failing in her duty…
A lawyer who was blinded after being shot along with his wife at their South Florida home in 2004 in an alleged contract hit testified today against his 31-year-old son…
Four police officers and two supervisors have been federally indicted in a civil rights case over civilian deaths on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane…
Videotape of a suspect’s confession that was broadcast on A&E’s true-crime program The First 48 can’t be shown to the jury in his capital murder trial, a Tennessee judge has…
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