Eye on the Courts: Fixing Our Criminal Justice System
Last week, we reported on research from University of Michigan economics professor Michael Mueller-Smith who, upon examining…
Monday Morning Thoughts: How Mass Incarceration Causes More Crime Than It Prevents
The argument against reforming the system of mass incarceration has been that it may be expensive and…
Eye on the Courts: Obama’s Turn on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice Issues
As I have stated many times on this site, I was expecting a lot more of President…
The Death Penalty’s Innocence Problem
By Cassandra Stubbs The demise of the death penalty is upon us. While the Supreme Court ruled…
Supreme Court Holds Line Allowing Execution Drug in a 5-4 Decision
The Supreme Court this year has taken a surprising though small turn to the left on a…
Eye on the Courts: Prosecutor Apologizes For Sending the Wrong Man to Death Row
At the outset, I recommend the readers read the full account of Attorney A.M. “Marty” Stroud III,…
Eye on the Courts: Problems of Race, Mental Illness Underlie Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty
The protests and police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island have focused on the disproportionate black and…
Eye on the Courts: Pushing For Reform on LWOP and the Death Penalty
Last week, we discussed the state of life without parole for juvenile offenders, as Daniel Marsh was…
Motion Claims State’s Cheating Compels Court to Block Death Penalty
Orange County Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders, who will speak at the Vanguard’s event on Saturday, filed…
Eye on the Courts: The System Failed Leslie Pinkston and the Death Penalty is Dead in California
We have not talked nearly enough about the troubling nature of the murder of Leslie Pinkston just…
Commentary: Are there Innocent People on Death Row?
“A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by…
New Evidence of Prosecutorial Misconduct Resulted in Likely Wrongful Execution Willingham
By the Innocence Project The newly formed criminal justice journalism group, The Marshall Project, broke a story…
Eye on the Courts: The Pernicious Specter of Prosecutorial Misconduct
A ruling this last week in Orange County shows just how high the bar has been set…
Eye on the Courts: Can We Acknowledge the Wood Execution Was Botched?
In the hours that followed the execution of Joseph Wood, Governor Jan Brewer would issue a statement…
Eye on the Courts: Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?
It was years ago I read about an individual who was put under anesthesia but was fully…
Eye on the Courts: Reality of Wood’s Execution Confirms Kozinski’s Critique of Lethal Injection
Two days after Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, in dissent, unloaded one of the most powerful, poignant, and…
Judge Kozinski Unloads Blistering Critique of Lethal Injection
On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Arizona’s request for a rehearing…
Eye on the Court: Death Penalty Creates Unequal Application Under the Law
Last week, a Federal District Court Judge would invalidate the death penalty in the case of a…
Federal Judge Tosses Out the Death Penalty as Unconstitutional
Federal Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote in a decision – that while limited – could have widespread…
Report to Committee on Elimination of Racial Disparities in US Criminal Justice System
Established in 1986, The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by…
