The Council of State Governments Justice Center has produced a notable new report titled "The Supervision Violations and Their Impact on Incarceration." This CSG webpage provides this overview of the ...

As reported in this AP article, a "man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this year, his death Thursday marking a state ...

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The Supreme Court issued this relative short order list this morning which concluded with an interesting dissent from the denial of certiorari authored by Justice Sotomayor and joined by Justice ...

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In this post a couple of years ago, I noted the launch of the Plea Bargaining Institute (PBI) which aspired to "provide a global intellectual home for academics, policymakers, advocacy organizations ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Rosemary Ardman now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: In May 2023, Florida authorized the death penalty for the sexual battery ...

The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Michael O'Hear and now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: In 2019, in Timbs v. Indiana, the United States Supreme Court held ...

As detailed in this lengthy local story, "Alabama executed Carey Dale Grayson for the 1994 brutal slaying and mutilation of a hitchhiker in Jefferson County on Thursday evening, making it the state’s ...

The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Sarah Lageson and Alessandro Corda which was recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Here is its abstract: ...

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