A review of 2,102 state supreme court rulings on death penalty appeals from the 37 states that heard such cases over the past 15 years found a strong correlation between the results in those cases and ...

Last Wednesday in Setser v. United States, the Court held that federal district judges have authority to direct that a criminal sentence be served consecutively or concurrently to a state sentence, ...

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As former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner begins his controversial six-month jail sentence for sexual assault, many are asking whether privilege was a factor in the judge's decision. In a statement to ...

No juvenile who commits murder or another serious crime can be sentenced to life without parole unless it is clear that the youth is doomed to a life of crime — that is, is so “corrupt” as to lack any ...

Joining us now is heather warranty and she is the executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore, how are you? I'm doing well, thanks, thank you for having ...

Relatives of a man killed in a Grand Bend stabbing weren’t happy to hear the killer get just eight years in prison. Zachary Hartman, 27, of Exeter, was fatally stabbed by Stratford’s Michael Compton, ...

Federal judges in New York City gave dozens of lighter prison sentences during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, often citing brutal conditions in Manhattan and Brooklyn jails as the reason, an ...