A friend of mine has just been made a High Court judge. Among the majestic paraphernalia that he has had to acquire—the scarlet robes, the wigs full-bottomed and otherwise, the pressed white gloves, ...

California hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, and while voters have supported keeping the death penalty, Gov. Gavin Newsom overrode them by imposing a moratorium in 2019. Legal battles have ...

A jury in Australia has begun deliberations in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged ...

Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's present in other criminal sentences as well.

SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...

An odd theme is cropping up in which death row inmates Gov. DeSantis chooses to execute next: Why are many of them ...

Jackson’s case — the first direct Florida Supreme Court death-penalty appeal under the 2023 law — also drew a brief Tuesday from groups and Black state lawmakers alleging the 8-4 law ...

A 2020 report from the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center showed that people of color have been overrepresented on death rows in the U.S., and that killers of Black people were less likely ...

The death penalty is costly. “More than $4 million has been spent with the results being no death penalty sentences and zero executions.” Racial bias infects capital prosecutions. “The factors which ...

Lawyers for a Black defendant challenging his 2009 death sentence argued Wednesday that North Carolina's documented history of racial discrimination and perceived implicit bias in jury selection ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009. Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 ...