Justice
405 articles
Christa Pike's Request for an All-Female Execution Squad Amid Legal Chaos
A Tennessee death row inmate's request for a female execution team comes as federal courts review her history of childho...
The Survivor of the Needle: Christa Pike and Tennessee's Execution Crisis
A failed lethal injection leaves a death row inmate unconscious and a state government scrambling for answers after a hi...
Tennessee Halts Death Penalty After Christa Pike Survives Lethal Injection
A botched execution of the state's only female death row inmate has triggered a statewide pause on capital punishment an...
Systemic Failure: NY Attorney General Takes Over Cornell Gang Rape Probe
Governor Kathy Hochul bypasses local prosecutors to hand a 2024 fraternity assault case to Letitia James after the accus...
Science Shifts, Conviction Falls: The Case of Jennifer Gaskin
A Toronto Appeal Court has overturned a manslaughter conviction after the medical basis for "shaken baby syndrome" was d...
Faith, Failure, and the Fall of the Three Dioceses
A new Massachusetts report exposes decades of institutional failure, revealing nearly 1,000 children were abused by 270 ...
Justice Delayed: Federal Court Halts First Female Execution in Tennessee Since 1820
A last-minute stay for Christa Pike raises critical questions about whether childhood trauma and mental illness should c...
Justice Delayed: Met Police Target 74 Entities in Grenfell Tower Criminal Probe
After nine years and millions of files, the UKโs largest criminal investigation moves toward the charging phase for the ...
Justice Delayed: DNA Clears Death Row Inmate in 1985 Provo Murder
Douglas Stewart Carter is free on bail after decades of incarceration for a crime DNA proves he didn't commit.
The Endless Fight: Ann Mingโs Battle Against William Dunlopโs Parole
After overturning an 800-year-old law to jail her daughter's killer, Ann Ming is now fighting a new legal war to keep Wi...
Justice Delayed: The Retrial of Word of Faith Leader Brooke Covington
A decade after a brutal 'blasting session,' a North Carolina church leader faces a kidnapping retrial stalled by legal c...
The Landlord Who Vanished: Systemic Failures Let Rape Suspect Flee UK
Ndumbe Achile Ndumbe escaped to Africa despite a rape probe and ยฃ180,000 in fraud allegations, exposing gaping holes in ...
Texas Grand Jury Clears Father in British Woman's Death Despite UK Manslaughter Ruling
Jane Coates is fighting to reopen the investigation into the shooting of her daughter, Lucy Harrison, after US authoriti...
Lawsuit Targets Nova Scotia School District After Teacher's Alleged Student Abuse
A class action suit seeks compensation for families at Dr. W.A. MacLeod Consolidated School following ten criminal charg...
Justice for Jodine Millar: Two-Year Sentence for Burke Mountain Burial
A B.C. man's decision to hide his ex-girlfriend's mother in a clandestine grave led to a manslaughter conviction and a t...
The Burke Mountain Burial: A Two-Year Sentence for a Fatal Shove
A B.C. man's attempt to hide the death of his ex-girlfriend's mother ends in a manslaughter conviction and a prison term...
Justice Delayed: The Quewezance Sisters and the Fight to Overturn a 30-Year Conviction
Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ordered a new appeal for two Indigenous women convicted in a 1993 murder, citing a like...
Texas Executes Ker'Sean Ramey for Brutal 2005 Triple Murder
A week after his accomplice was put to death, Ramey was executed in Huntsville following a failed Supreme Court appeal o...
US Marshals End Cross-Country Flight of Redmond Children
Two children missing since December 2023 were recovered in the D.C. area after their mother allegedly concealed their id...
The Digital Dealer of Death: Kenneth Lawโs Global Sodium Nitrite Empire
A former Mississauga chef faces sentencing after admitting to aiding 14 suicides through the international sale of letha...
Justice Served in Barrhaven: Xzander Wright Convicted in Crossing Guard Death
A 19-year-old driver faces sentencing after a judge ruled he drove dangerously, killing Peter Clark in a tragic March co...
Sex-for-Hire Allegations: Former Calgary Officer Mike Oakey Fights Dismissal
A former officer's appeal hinges on the credibility of a job applicant and a history of non-consensual image sharing.
RCMP Officer Under Probe After Dragging Woman from Whitehorse Shelter
An independent watchdog is investigating an RCMP officer who allegedly left an intoxicated woman on a sidewalk after her...
The Horn Island Verdict: Grand Jury Clears Passengers in Nolan Wells Death
While a Mississippi grand jury found no criminal conduct in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, a medical 'undetermine...
ICE Shooting Victim Paralyzed After 100-Mile Transfer With Bullet in Back
Attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch reveals harrowing details of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez's treatment after being shot by ...
Justice or Closure? Jackson County Rules Nolan Wells' Death an Accident
A grand jury investigation into the drowning of 18-year-old Nolan Wells found no evidence of foul play or racial bias, d...
No Charges in Nolan Wells Death: Grand Jury Cites Drowning on Horn Island
A Mississippi grand jury has cleared friends of college athlete Nolan Wells, ruling his death consistent with accidental...
The Holdout Juror: Legal Battle Intensifies Over Lindsay Clancy's Mistrial
Lawyers for Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy are targeting the one juror who refused to acquit, seeking a probe into ...
Justice Shelved: RCMP Declares Air India Flight 182 Probe 'Inactive'
Families of the 329 victims express outrage after the RCMP admits it has run out of leads in Canada's deadliest mass mur...
The 10-Year Sentencing Gap: Why Megan Newborough's Death Sparked a Legal Battle
Megan Newborough's parents are fighting for justice after a sentencing disparity left her killer with a lighter term bec...