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According to Columbia University law professor James Liebman, a man who was wrongly convicted of murder was executed in Texas in 1989. Texas has executed the most people out of any state, executing 482 of the 1,295 people who have been put to death nationwide since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. On February 4, […]

On June 25th, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that life in prison without parole for a crime committed as a juvenile is “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. The holding will have significant ramifications for Pennsylvania, which currently houses approximatley 480 people who were sentenced […]

Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, age 68, was found guilty of all but three charges against him relating to sex with children. The guilty verdict included all 17 counts of the most serious charges such as involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and unlawful contact with minors, each of which carry a maximum penalty of […]

Louisiana has passed a bill that would add a proverbial scarlet letter to sex offenders and child predators who wish to join Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The bill, a first of it’s kind, would mandate that all registered sex offenders or child predators add a disclaimer-like notice to their online profiles.  The […]

As social networks permeate more and more into our everyday lives, there becomes an ever-increasing problem of lack of privacy and internet predators. And as social networks become more and more common, they become more and more necessary. With upwards of 175 million Facebook users in the US (and growing), and an estimated 745,000 registered […]