In a showdown between California’s governor and the state supreme court, parole officers yesterday began arresting hundreds of convicted sex offenders for violating a new state law. It prohibits sex…
Documents from controversial trials 700 years ago that still fascinate many today are to be published by the Vatican later this month in a limited, leather-bound edition of 799 numbered…
Twenty lawyers have filed an ethics complaint against the presiding judge of Texas’ top criminal court contending she should have kept the court open past 5 p.m. to accept an…
In extended oral arguments (PDF) yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the power of President Bush to order state courts to carry out an international court decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a federal appeals court ruling that granted a new sentencing hearing for an Ohio neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men at Cleveland State University.
A study released by an ABA group says Pennsylvania’s death penalty system fails to ensure basic fairness and could result in the execution of an innocent person. The Oct 9, 2007 3:48 PM CDT
It takes only four votes for the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case but five to grant a stay of execution, raising the possibility that an inmate can be…
Although the state of Texas halted an execution at the last minute this week, apparently because of a U.S. Supreme Court challenge over another state’s lethal injection approach, experts expect…
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for a Texas death-row inmate in a move that suggests it may agree to halt lethal injections in additional cases.
The notorious Washington state killer who murdered 48 women didn’t get the death penalty. And Robert Yates Jr. didn’t, either, when he confessed in a Spokane County plea deal to…
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