Stories tagged "injustice"

No evidence that men living in Bosnia plotted attack on Sarajevo embassy.

Pennsylvania leads the nation in teen lifers -- prisoners serving life without parole for crimes they committed as minors -- and last week legislators met to examine the issue for the first time.

VIZNAR, Spain (AP) _ The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War.

Seven witnesses have recanted their testimony in a Georgia death penalty case, but the execution of convicted murderer Troy Anthony Davis is moving forward.

Maryland's medical examiner has concluded a jail inmate accused of killing a police officer was strangled in his cell.

As they serve prison time, offenders are slapped with fees they can't pay, creating a vicious cycle.

Children held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons and convicted without fair trial

Liz Spikol gives her 2 cents about the mental health care system/criminal justice system as they relate to this particular sad case.

A state judge has ordered a hearing into the accusation by a condemned man that his murder trial was tainted by a love affair between the judge and the prosecutor.

It might also be noted that the US is heading increasingly towards an authoritarian future, no? Certainly over the course of the last seven years we have seen the executive branch in the US claim that it no longer needs to enact or adhere to laws passed b