by Douglas Ankney
Since the Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the idea has been that death sentences are reserved for only those murders committed by the worst of the worst killers. But in August 1991, Charles Burton helped five other men rob an AutoZone ...
by David M. Reutter
As protests spread across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020, another police killing two months earlier in Kentucky gained notoriety – that of Breonna Taylor. The 26-year-old emergency medical technician was shot at least eight ...
by Matt Clarke
Faulty forensics play a major role in causing known wrongful convictions in the United States. Just how big of a role the application of science to justice plays in sending the innocent to prison depends upon your definition of “wrongful convictions.”
The Innocence Project, a national litigation ...
by Jay Schweikert, Cato Institute, September 14, 2020
Qualified immunity is a judicial doctrine that protects public officials from liability, even when they break the law. The doctrine has no valid legal basis, it regularly denies justice to victims whose rights have been violated, and it severely undermines official accountability, ...
Experts Say Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification Errors Are Widespread and Contribute to Thousands of Wrongful Convictions
by Derek Gilna
In a time where much of the American criminal justice system is justifiably under intense pressure to eliminate potential racial bias, there is at least one issue that could be resolved without ...
The uprisings of 2020 might have finally cracked their invulnerability.
by Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
As the year 1990 came to an end, a fight broke out during a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Juke Box Saturday Night bar in downtown Minneapolis. A 21-year-old white student grabbed Michael Sauro ...
