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• Supreme Court Rules on Lethal Injection Method

  The most common method used in lethal injection executions in the United States has been upheld by the Supreme Court . A constitutional challenge was made regarding the State of Kentucky's use of the three drugs that sedate, paralyze and, finally... Posted Apr 16 2008, 02:03 PM by CC Pro with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Legal issues, Supreme Court, Capital punishment

• U.S.Sentencing Commission Revisits Crack Cocaine Sentencing

  The U.S. Sentencing Commission , which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, voted unanimously "to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences." Eligible inmates would... Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:50 AM by CC Pro with | with no comments Filed under: Legal issues, Sentencing, Racial disparities, U.S. Sentencing Commission

• Georgia High Court Overturns Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders

  In a unanimous decision , the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a state law that placed a ban on where registered sex offenders could reside. The law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, forbade registered sex offenders from "living within... Posted Nov 28 2007, 01:39 PM by CC Pro with | with no comments Filed under: Reentry, Legal issues, Sex offenders

• Executions by Lethal Injection May Be Halted Until Supreme Court Rules

  The Supreme Court will decide, before its scheduled July recess, the question of whether the mixture of "three drugs used to sedate and kill prisoners has the potential to cause pain severe enough to violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual... Posted Nov 01 2007, 08:39 AM by CC Pro with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Legal issues, Supreme Court, Capital punishment

• Supreme Court Examines Sentencing Law in California

  Does a judge have the authority to impose additional time to a prison sentence based on facts the jury never considered? What would be the impact on California's prison system? This is the issue before the Supreme Court in Cunningham v. California... Posted Oct 13 2006, 10:55 AM by CC Pro with | with no comments Filed under: Legal issues