The steel door slammed shut. The wheelchair was rolled down to “The Rock,” a vast open space of steel tables and chairs bolted to the floor where death row inmates gather. They peered through the bars ...

I am a 29-year-old Bay Area resident with metastatic cervical cancer. I travel across the country for a government-funded clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health that is giving me hope, ...

Judge Rosemarie Aquilina last Wednesday sentenced Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting over 150 gymnasts while working for USA Gymnastics. Earlier in the sentencing ...

On Tuesday, May 21, the Serbian National Assembly passed the Criminal Code amendment which introduced significant changes into the criminal justice system, out of which the most controversial one is ...

Judges could soon consider a new dimension when it comes to sentencing: the future. A recent news article at fivethrtyeight.com describes how, in Pennsylvania, judges may start using statistical ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the trials of Saddam Hussein should continue and his death sentence in the Dujail case should be stayed at least ...

You may have heard there’s a growing political movement against mass incarceration. Someone should clue in the judges. In the past 30 years, federal judges have turned to imprisonment – as opposed to ...

Death Sentence London launched on April 19th – but what's it all about? Writer Monty Nero explains the opening chapter of "the best British comic in years" (Buzzfeed): Death Sentence London is the ...

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced award-winning actress Felicity Huffman to two weeks in prison, a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service for her conviction for honest ...