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A North Carolina judge on Friday commuted a man's death sentence to a sentence of life in prison without parole after he determined that racial bias was a major influence behind the original sentence 18 years...

There were only 78 new death sentences handed down in the US in 2011—the first time that number has dropped below 100 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976—according to a report published Thursday...

North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would have essentially repealed the state's Racial Justice Act . The 2009 law, which allows death row inmates to appeal their...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina to challenge the state's newly adopted immigration law [SB 20...

The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 69-43 on Tuesday to enact legislation aimed at reforming the state's immigration laws. The immigration reform bill allows police officers to check a suspect's immigration...

The US Supreme Court decided four cases Monday. The Court ruled 5-4 in Bartlett v. Strickland that a racial minority group that comprises less than 50 percent...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases, including Pearson v. Callahan , 07-751, in which the Court will review a July 2007 ruling [opinion,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, says that California Arnold Schwarzenegger's ruling denying clemency in ths case of Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams disregarded the constitutional foundations of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Bradley, a former law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, says that Rehnquist's thirty-three year legal legacy is complex and must be examined from multiple perspectives... No one person can adequately assess Chief Justice...

Leading Wednesday's states brief, North Carolina lawmakers and law enforcement officers today urged the state's General Assembly to pass legislation unveiled seven months ago to combat gang member violence in the state. The bill would create additional...