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A developer wants to get rid of the street going to a century-old trading post turned museum, but who controls the road is in dispute.
The same samples of bodily fluids that helped put Paul Hildwin on death row for a 1985 murder in Hernando County persuaded the Florida Supreme Court to overturn his conviction and death sentence on Thursday.
The Supreme Court said the state was being too rigid when it said anyone with an I.Q. of 71 or over is not eligible to be spared the death penalty on account of intellectual disabilities.
TAMPAOn a cold night four months ago, La'Quita Carter took a pillow from the trunk of her car, climbed into the back seat and wrapped herself in an old blanket.
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
A man serving life in prison for a 1979 murder was set free Monday after Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro acknowledged “intentional prosecutorial misconduct” in his case and false testimony from a New Orleans police detective who helped...
An Oklahoma inmate died Tuesday evening of an apparent heart attack after authorities botched the delivery of drugs and stopped his execution.
Tennessee's death penalty law allows details about lethal injection drugs to be kept secret.
Reforms have reduced the practice, but haven’t eliminated it.
The FDA has okayed a device for at-home use that offers a single dose injection of naloxone, a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Here’...
TRIGGER WARNING. THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS TEXT AND IMAGES THAT MAY BE HARMFUL TO SURVIVORS. A friend recently sent me a link to a TEDx video that features Leslie Morgan Steiner. Steiner is a Harvard graduate, former editor of Seventeen magazine, and a successful businesswoman. She is also a domestic violence survivor. The author of Crazy Love, Steiner busts…
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A law intended to help restaurant diners know what was made in house is off to a rocky start.
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Instances of wrongful imprisonment have made clear that microscopic hair analysis, a staple of forensics for years, was not as flawless as people had been led to believe.
Martin Tankleff, who was released from prison in 2007 after serving 17 years on charges
A top Florida prosecutor is under fire for controversial comments he made on Facebook about some of the people he works to put behind bars.
Dade Correctional Institution officials and officers stand accused of covering up the suspicious death of a mentally ill inmate.
DNA testing has shown us that the criminal justice system is flawed. But DNA testing isn't a catch-all remedy for those flaws.
Mr. Carter, a ferocious, crowd-pleasing prizefighter, became an international cause célèbre after being convicted in New Jersey of murder and imprisoned for 19 years before the charges were dismissed.
Nothing gets me more annoyed than men telling women what to wear. I'm on the record saying that baseball's dress policy was too Our Lady of Perpetual Judgment for my taste.
Garden City gets a third of its budget -- $250K -- from medicinal sales, much more expected as recreational sales flourish
A Florida woman wearing nothing but a thong rampaged through a St. Petersburg McDonald's Monday, banging her head on the counter and then attempting to take apart the kitchen with her bare hands. Eventually, she chilled out by eating soft-serve straight out of the machine.
A new trial has been ordered for Mississippi death row inmate Michelle Byrom, according to a state Supreme Court opinion issued Monday.
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