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Joseph "Tiger King" Maldonado-Passage was sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiring two hitmen to take out his foe, an animal-rights activist. (Neither was successful; one went to the beach instead, and one was an undercover FBI agent.)…

Missouri carried out the first execution of an openly transgender woman in the history of the United States on Tuesday (access full article).

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Mexico’s Supreme Court made history Monday when it voted a woman to head the tribunal for the first time (access full article).  

The chief justice is called the…

A Mississippi federal court declared opposition to federal sentencing guidelines for methamphetamine offenses, and sentenced an admitted drug offender lower than prescribed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s guidelines.

Citing DEA date, the court rejected the guidelines' reasoning that…

On New Year’s Eve, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts released his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary for 2022.

In the report, which is released every year as the Supreme…

The death penalty in Kentucky has been used sparingly in the last 30-plus years, but its use shows racial biases, according to a new report from local researchers and other experts (view full article).

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President Biden on Thursday pardoned all people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law and said his administration would review whether marijuana should still be a Schedule 1 drug like heroin and LSD, saying that “makes no sense” (article available…

Grants Pass, Ore. has more homeless residents than shelter beds, forcing some homeless to sleep in public spaces. Easy fix, says the town, we'll just make that illegal. Ninth Circuit: You can't ticket the…

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday,  June 30, 2022, became the U.S. Supreme Court's newest justice, a historic move that makes her the first Black woman to serve on the high court in its 232-year history (…

The long-term cost of the Baltimore Police Department’s notorious and disgraced Gun Trace Task Force to taxpayers just jumped by more than half a million dollars, the result of a newly-…