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'Biased' male judges will discriminate against women under Lammy plans, claim victims
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David Lammy has been urged to abandon plans to cut jury trials over fears that male judges will deliver biased verdicts against women.
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Opinion | Justice Department Should Investigate Stephanie Minter's Killing
After Breonna Taylor died at the hands of Louisville, Ky. , police, the Justice Department launched an investigation. When George Floyd was killed, the department started an inquiry into the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Jess Phillips reveals she is victim of courts backlog with restraining order case delayed until 2028
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Jess Phillips has revealed she is a victim of the soaring crown courts backlog with a man accused of breaching a restraining order not due to face trial until 2028.
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Alabama man gets clemency on death row.
Alabama governor grants clemency to death row inmate who was accomplice to murder, sparing him from execution this week
The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.
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'Juries have not caused this crisis': Top lawyers and ex-judges plead for government to rethink plans to curb jury trials
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More than 3,200 legal experts, including leading lawyers and former judges, have pleaded for the government to rethink a controversial plan to scrap jury trials for some crimes.
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Alabama Is About to Execute a 75-Year-Old Man Who Didn't Even Kill Anyone. There's Still Time to Stop It.
Clemency, an executive power outside of the court system, is the only possible mechanism to correct the injustice of disproportionate death sentences like Burton's, as the law does not mandate a review of the proportionality of death sentences.
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Poised to make history, Amber Givens upsets incumbent in Dallas County District Attorney primary: exclusive interview
It may have been the most surprising upset on election night: Amber Givens defeated two-term incumbent Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot in the Democratic primary.
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Man facing death for murder he didn't commit issues plea: 'spare my life'
On March 12, Charles "Sonny" Burton will wake up for the last time in his Alabama jail. His last journey will be to an execution chamber where he will breath nitrogen gas through a mask until, deprived of oxygen, he will suffocate and die.
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Democrats rebuke Jared Polis after hinting at Tina Peters pardon
Gov. Jared Polis suggested in a social media post this week that the nine‑year prison sentence imposed on former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters may have been excessive compared with penalties imposed in other cases, raising the prospect that he could commute her sentence or grant a pardon.
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Victims facing 'inhumane' delays for justice as criminal cases take four years to go to trial
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Dozens of criminal trials will not take place for another four years, damning new figures reveal, as crime victims face "inhumane" delays for justice under Britain's broken courts system.
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Death penalty would expand under new bill
A new bill calls for authorization of the death penalty as legal punishment for child rapists.
Republican U. S. Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina announced her introduction of the Death Penalty for Child Rapists Act on X Thursday.
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Policing For Profit: The Case Against Civil Asset Forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture -- the legal practice of allowing government to seize property suspected of being used or involved in the commitment of a crime -- represents one of the most troubling erosions of due process in American law.
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He spent over 40 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Now he's fighting for release from ICE custody | CNN
After losing four decades of his life serving time for a murder he maintains he did not commit, a gray-haired Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam prepared to step out of a Pennsylvania prison last October as a free man.
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He spent over 40 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Now he's fighting for release from ICE custody
After losing four decades of his life serving time for a murder he maintains he did not commit, a gray-haired Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam prepared to step out of a Pennsylvania prison last October as a free man.
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Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling trigger in 1991 killing; victim's daughter urges clemency
Charles "Sonny" Burton could be executed in Alabama despite never having killed anyone, a rare occurrence in a death penalty case that has pushed some of the jurors who sentenced him to seek clemency from the state's governor.
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Former Capitol riot prosecutors draft strategy for Congress to probe killings, federal agent conduct in Minneapolis
Scott MacFarlane is CBS News' Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R.
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Ex-sheriff's deputy receives maximum sentence for killing unarmed...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A former Illinois sheriff's deputy was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had dialed 911 to report a possible prowler outside her Springfield home.
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The former Illinois deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey faces up to 20 years in prison
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The former Illinois sheriff's deputy convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to request help, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.
