The Supreme Court has emphasised the utility of deterrent punishment in criminal cases, stating that such punishment maintains balance with the gravity of the wrong done by a person and also makes an ...

When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. "I was in Angola for 24 years," he says. He heard the same story over and over from other inmates: "That they was ...

Fourteen years after two men were shot to death in a Bradenton duplex, Jamal Blakely was sentenced to life in prison for the ...