Gov. Greg Abbott is set to replace another official at the scandal-plagued Texas Juvenile Justice Department. One juvenile justice reform advocate said the action appears to be in retaliation for the official speaking out about agency flaws, the Texas Tribune reports. The governor will announce...
When a widespread industry practice comes under regulatory scrutiny, companies that end up in the crosshairs sometimes fall back on the “everyone does it” defense. This argument has an intuitive appeal in the consumer-protection context—consumers are presumably aware of practices that are common across an...
The final sentencing hearing began Wednesday for disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar, who will again be confronted by scores of victims as he faces another prison sentence for molesting gymnasts at an elite Michigan club run by an Olympic coach, reports the Associated Press....
A Mesa, Az., man named in court documents as a “person of interest” during the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas said he had met the shooter one time and sold ammunition to him. Douglas Haig told The...
California moved a step closer to resuming lethal injections this week but still faces significant hurdles before inmates can be executed, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation unveiled a revised single-drug method of execution, allowing the state to use either...
A Dallas man who was on parole for the murder of his estranged wife when he stabbed and strangled his ex-girlfriend in 1999 was executed last night, the Houston Chronicle reports. The execution of William Earl Rayford, which took 13 minutes to carry out, was...