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 ...

Let’s get smarter on crime, not “tougher.” This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more ...

For people, myself included, who are serving long prison sentences in New York, years pass, circumstances change, and lives take on dimensions that were not discernable at the time of sentencing. Yet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced award-winning actress Felicity Huffman to two weeks in prison, a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service for her conviction for honest ...

Michelle M. Lindo McCluer [Director, National Institute of Military Justice]: "For the first time in half a century, the President approved a military death sentence this summer. Army Private Ronald ...