A North Carolina death-row inmate was freed from prison yesterday after a judge determined investigators mishandled his case and prosecutors decided against a retrial.
In the latest appellate court ruling in a controversial and long-running capital case that appears almost certain to continue further, a federal appeals court today voided the death penalty given…
A controversial case concerning an al-Qaida terrorism suspect who has been held in U.S. custody since he was 15 years old is being argued in Canada’s highest court today, where…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday limiting the reach of international treaties pitted Texas state courts against President Bush and the International Court of Justice.
Weighing in on an issue that has created concern among lawyers, journalists and human rights advocates, among others, the American Bar Association has filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief…
The president of the American Bar Association has written the president of the United States, expressing concern that six terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay…
As individuals stand in line at the airport waiting to fly home, it might seem that arresting them for violating immigration laws—so that they can be jailed, tried and deported…
A defendant in a capital murder case who was represented for more than a year by private lawyers paid for by the state of Georgia has sued his trial judge…
In a 6-1 decision today, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that the use of the electric chair is unconstitutional under state law, effectively imposing a death penalty moratorium since this…
The sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are supporting a group of historians seeking release of transcripts from the grand jury investigation into the couple’s spying for the Soviet Union.
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Alabama inmate James Harvey Callahan yesterday a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die.
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