Press freedom violations recounted in real time January 2015 (RSF - Reporters...
(Source: RSF - Reporters sans frontières) 16.11.2015 - Woman journalist gets three years Reporters Without Borders condemns the three-year jail sentence that Solmaz Ikder, a journalist who has worked...
View ArticleBangladesh's Supreme Court upholds death sentences for 2 opposition leaders
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences given to two influential opposition leaders who were convicted of war crimes committed during the country's 1971 independence war against...
View ArticleTexas court voids reprieve; execution moving forward
The latest on the scheduled Wednesday execution of Texas inmate Raphael Holiday (all times local): ......
View ArticleTexas to execute man convicted of killing three children in house fire
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas plans on Wednesday to execute Raphael Holiday, 36, who was convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000....
View ArticleCourt rejects appeal in Indiana University student's death
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided against considering an appeal from the man convicted of killing an Indiana...
View ArticleBangladesh court upholds opposition leaders' death sentences
Bangladesh's highest court Wednesday upheld the death sentences of two opposition leaders convicted for atrocities during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan, sparking fears of violence by their...
View ArticleInmates 'jumping on charges' used murder-for-hire suspect to help their own...
YORK -- What the defense says happened to Gregory Hess – twice – while he was behind bars is nothing unusual inside prison walls. In fact, it's called "jumping on charges," defense attorney Farley Holt...
View ArticleThe Pilgrimage for Raphael Holiday Is the Pilgrimage for Abolition
This Wednesday, Raphael Holiday will be executed minutes after 6 p.m. at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Unlike many of those I've encountered on death row, I believe that Holiday deserves to die....
View ArticleRick Perry indictment goes before Texas' top criminal court
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants the state's highest criminal court to dismiss felony charges against him...
View ArticleNitish Katara murder: No death penalty for Vikas, Vishal, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition filed by the Delhi government, seeking death penalty for the convicts, Vikas and Vishal Yadav, in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case. A bench of Justices J...
View ArticleNitish Katara murder: Supreme Court rejects Delhi government's plea seeking...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by the Delhi government seeking death penalty to Vikas and Vishal Yadav, convicted for the murder of Nitish Katara....
View ArticleProsecutorial Misconduct and the Public's Perception of Criminal Defense
One of the most recognizable lines in television history is the introduction to NBC's Law & Order: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important...
View ArticleRick Perry's indictment in hands of top Texas criminal court
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The felony case against former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is now in the hands of the state's highest...
View ArticleGa. Supreme Court returns former DeKalb school chief’s to trial court
The Georgia Supreme Court today returned to the trial court the case against former DeKalb County School Superintendent Crawford Lewis, saying a judge should decide if he truthfully testified against...
View ArticleCase against man in daughter's 1989 fire death is dropped
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) - An elderly man who spent 24 years in prison for his daughter's death in a fire before his conviction was overturned will remain free now that a prosecutor has decided to drop...
View ArticleSupreme Court won’t Hear Appeal of Ex-McCaskey Teacher who Abused 2 Students...
(Source: Lancaster County, PA) A former McCaskey High School teacher serving up to 30 years in prison for sexual assaults of two students will get no relief from Pennsylvania's highest court. The state...
View ArticleBlagojevich appeals to Supreme Court
As promised, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in his fight for his freedom. Blagojevich’s attorney, Leonard Goodman, vowed this summer to take...
View ArticleTexas County Says Sandra Bland Was Despondent Over Not Meeting Bail
HOUSTON (AP) — Sandra Bland, the black woman found dead in a Texas county jail this summer, killed herself because she was despondent over her relatives' refusal to quickly bail her out, attorneys for...
View ArticleWoman sentenced to death for hiring man to kill her daughter
Convicted of capital murder for persuading a family friend to gun her daughter down on a remote dirt road in Russell County on July 5, 2007, Lisa Leanne Graham today was sentenced to the death penalty....
View ArticleConviction upheld for condemned Garland man
The state's highest criminal court has upheld the conviction of a Dallas-area man sent to death row for the burning death...
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