Judge Rosemarie Aquilina last Wednesday sentenced Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting over 150 gymnasts while working for USA Gymnastics. Earlier in the sentencing ...

In the autumn of his 18 th year, the year after he crossed the Alps into Italy with the armies of Napoleon, Stendhal felt his vocation had been decided: he would become a writer. Almost two decades ...

You may have heard there’s a growing political movement against mass incarceration. Someone should clue in the judges. In the past 30 years, federal judges have turned to imprisonment – as opposed to ...

The steel door slammed shut. The wheelchair was rolled down to “The Rock,” a vast open space of steel tables and chairs bolted to the floor where death row inmates gather. They peered through the bars ...

Judges could soon consider a new dimension when it comes to sentencing: the future. A recent news article at fivethrtyeight.com describes how, in Pennsylvania, judges may start using statistical ...

Death Sentence London launched on April 19th – but what's it all about? Writer Monty Nero explains the opening chapter of "the best British comic in years" (Buzzfeed): Death Sentence London is the ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the trials of Saddam Hussein should continue and his death sentence in the Dujail case should be stayed at least ...