On November 20, 2019, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued a preliminary injunction halting four executions that the Justice...

Since the United States Supreme Court handed down the Graham v. Florida decision in 2010 and Graham’s inevitable sequel, Miller v....

“David Bailey walks free today without having served his full sentence while we as a family serve the life sentence that he inflicted on...

The Supreme Court is considering whether Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he and his partner killed ten people in the DMV (District of...

Mentally ill offenders possess a unique set of circumstances and needs. However, all too often, the cycle through the criminal justice...

Correctional facilities’ attempt to balance security and inmates’ constitutional rights often skews in favor of security. However, in a...

Criminal justice reform legislation is critical in reducing mass incarceration and recidivism rates. In December, 2018, Congress passed...

There has been a debate on whether a prisoner is “healthy” enough to execute. Consistent with the Eighth Amendment, and this Court’s...

The Eighth Amendment reads, “excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments...

Statistics show that over 200,000 text messages are sent every second of the day. As technology has risen, particularly among the current...

As the fall semester begins for students, October brings the beginning of another Supreme Court session. The Supreme Court has...

Recently Larry Nassar, the former U.S. gymnastics doctor who abused young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment, was...

In Maryland, not one juvenile lifer has been paroled in the last 20 years, even though there are more than 200 individuals in Maryland...

The opioid epidemic has continued to be a national issue that has plagued our country for multiple years and is showing no signs of...

While 2016 was a year filled with many newsworthy stories in the criminal law world, the story of Stanford student, Brock Turner,...

As of July 1, 2016, there are 2,905 Americans on death row. Almost one-third of those inmates live in one of these three states:...

Duane Buck was sentenced to death by a jury in 1997 after his own counsel called an expert witness who testified that Mr. Buck would be a...