A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve findsBlack incarcerated people have been subjected to prolonged and painful botched executions in the US at more than twice the rate of white death row inmates, a new study has found.While glaring racial disparities have long been visible in US capital punishment, the report from the international human rights group Reprieve finds that the inequities exist even inside the...
The county’s guaranteed income pilot program was designed provide $500 monthly subsidies for more than 1,900 low-income households for 18 months. The first payments, set to go out Wednesday, are now on indefinite hold.
The killing of Kanhaiya Lal- the tailor hacked to death outside his shop in broad daylight in Rajasthan's Udaipur in June 2022 - featured in the Supreme Court Tuesday, as it heard a PIL against increasing mob violence against minorities.
As the nation's highest court heard arguments this week in a case expected to shape homelessness policies in the years to come, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath listened angrily. The case involved a small Oregon town seeking to rid its streets and parks of encampments, and leaders across California had joined in calling for the Supreme Court to take up the issue, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and L.A. City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto. But not Horvath....
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
The U.S. Supreme Court spent much of Thursday, April 25 listening to opposing oral arguments in Donald Trump's absolute immunity case.The former president claims that because he enjoyed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution when he was in the White House, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's election interference indictment is illegitimate and needs to be thrown out. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, assigned to Smith's case, has flatly rejected Trump's absolute...
Noncompete clauses "benefit employers and workers alike," Chamber tells court.
(The Center Square) – The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an administrative stay to temporarily block Harris County’s “Uplift Harris” guaranteed income pilot program from going into effect, granting a request filed earlier in the day by Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is after two lower courts, the 165th District Court and the 14th Court of Appeals, denied his request for a temporary injunction, ruling in favor of Harris County in a lawsuit Paxton filed to stop it from...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block Texas' Republican-championed law requiring porn websites to verify the age of their users, the Associated Press reports. Adult-entertainment industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition filed an emergency appeal asking the high court put Texas House Bill 1181 on hold while the justices weigh whether to hear a full appeal of the court dispute over the law. Last year, a federal judge blocked HB 1181’s age-verification requirement,...
An attorney for former President Donald Trump in the presidential immunity hearing clashed with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan over a hypothetical question on whether a president who "ordered" a "coup" could be prosecuted. "If it's an official act, there needs to be impeachment and conviction beforehand," Trump's attorney John Sauer argued Thursday before the Supreme Court, which is being broadcast publicly via audio only. Sauer's statement was in response to Justice Elena Kagan's...
Morrisey made the announcement of a Supreme Court appeal attempt at a press conference surrounded by other political figures and Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer who has been active in the politics surrounding gender identity and women’s sports.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging the program, saying it violates the Texas Constitution.