In Herbig v. Welch, a dispute arose around whether a trust terminated and whether certain transfers were valid. No. 01-22-00080-CV, 2023 Tex. App. LEXIS 4505 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] June 27, 2023, no... Read more »
Iranian authorities on Sunday released two journalists who spent over a year in prison for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran by the morality police... Read more »
The recent death of “Parasite” actor Lee Sun-kyun highlights South Korea’s crackdown on drugs, one which draws a hard line against anything other than total abstinence, John Yoon reports for the New... Read more »
A two-part report published on Monday by the Wren Collective, a group of former public defenders who do criminal justice research and policy, found that in most Harris County, Texas cases ending... Read more »
Prosecutors in Japan are seeking the death penalty for the suspect in an arson attack in 2019 that killed 36 people, Justin McCurry reports for The Guardian. Shinji Aoba admitted in court... Read more »
A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Samuel Lawrence was arrested for arson... Read more »
Twenty-four people have been put to death in the US this year with the executions all taking place in five states as of December 7. The death penalty has always been, and... Read more »
Five former correctional officers, and a former lieutenant, at the Southern Regional Jail in West Virginia have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the 2022 death of an... Read more »
According to an annual report on capital punishment from the Death Penalty Information Center, more Americans now believe the death penalty, which is undergoing a years-long decline of use and support, is... Read more »
Loay Alnaji, the California man involved in the death of a Jewish man during an altercation between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators this month, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and battery charges on... Read more »