Criminal Law

A Death Penalty Puzzle: The Murky Evidence For and Against Deterrence
A Death Penalty Puzzle: The Murky Evidence For and Against Deterrence

New Jersey Abolishes Death Penalty
Today Governor Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey signed a bill abolishing the death penalty in New Jersey. Passed last week by the New Jersey Assembly and Senate, the bill is the first legislative abolition of the death penalty since the Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976...

America's Death Penalty - The View From Abroad
Oxford Analytica has, "Death of capital punishment?" The United States and Japan are the only industrialised democracies where the death penalty is still enforced. Governments in Poland and Peru have floated the idea of reintroducing the death penalty for certain...

New Hampshire Senate Rejects Death Penalty Expansion
The Nashua Telegraph has, "Senate rejects death penalty legislation." The state Senate shot down a likely Republican candidate for governor's bid to expand the death penalty. Sen. Joseph Kenney, R- Wakefield, wanted to impose the death penalty on those guilty...

NEW RESOURCES: Pierce Law Review Releases Special Death Penalty Issue
The March 2008 issue of the Pierce Law Review explores many aspects of the death penalty through articles written by renowned death penalty scholars and attorneys. With a forward by Christopher M...

Clemency Urged in Mississippi Case
Today's Jackson Clarion-Ledger carries the editorial, "Death penalty: State should spare Dale Bishop." This newspaper has been a longtime supporter of the enforcement of the death penalty in Mississippi...

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

RC2 Corp to Pay $1.25 Million Civil Penalty
RC2 Corp to Pay $1.25 Million Civil Penalty >

Faulty Homes
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. pays HUD $75,000 civil penalty for defective construction.

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.

imbee Data Collection
Industrious Kid, Inc. pays $130,000 civil penalty for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Wrongful Death
alleging death was caused by the conduct of negligent defendant.

Taser Death
allegedly directly causing or leading to complications resulting in death.