U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s recent ruling on solitary confinement influenced the Richmond, Virginia, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals’ … [Read more...]
Local Police Departments Want More Minorities
Minorities remain largely underrepresented in many local police departments despite efforts to improve their diversity programs, a federal report … [Read more...]
Single Death Drug OK’d On 5-4 Supreme Court Vote
A deeply emotional and divided U.S. Supreme Court finally upheld the use of a controversial single lethal injection execution process, “even as two … [Read more...]
Texas Slows Its Record Pace Of Death Row Executions
The state of Texas is no longer killing Death Row inmates at a record pace. At its peak in 1999, there were 460 men and women sentenced to death. … [Read more...]
New L.A. Police Unit To Combat Crime Surge
A squad of hard-charging law enforcement officers has been cut loose to quell a crime surge in the City of Los Angeles. Deploying the Los Angeles … [Read more...]
Death Penalty in ‘Legal Limbo’ Over Use of Lethal Injection
Even though the state’s death penalty is in “legal limbo” over the use of a three-drug lethal injection procedure, Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered the … [Read more...]
Twenty-Four Graduate From ELITE’s Intensive San Quentin Self-Help Program
It was a day of smiles and pride for 24 San Quentin inmates who graduated from an intensive self-help program aimed at helping them improve themselves … [Read more...]
Botched Executions Spark National Debate on Death Penalty
Death penalty states had great difficulty obtaining the combination of drugs needed to execute inmates in 2014. “This past year, the number of inmates … [Read more...]
Veterans’ Dramas Reveal Life After Military
“Veterans need help” was the message that resonated in a play performed just days before Memorial Day by a group of incarcerated inmates representing … [Read more...]
Death Penalty ‘Costly, Still Broken’
The death penalty is broken in the U.S., according to a federal judge. Judge William A. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told a student … [Read more...]
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