The number of U.S. prisoners serving life sentences has more than quadrupled over the past three decades, and those eligible for parole are waiting longer to be released, according to a report ...

Death Penalty Information Center finds only 2 percent of counties carry out executions. Only 2 percent of U.S. counties account for 52 percent of executions since 1976, and 56 percent of the current ...

The number of death sentences worldwide jumped by almost 500 last year compared to 2013, mainly due to a sharp spike in sentences handed out in Egypt and Nigeria, says Amnesty International. Amnesty’s ...

This paper is concerned with an intuitive contrast that arises when we consider sentences containing empty definite descriptions. A sentence like 'The king of France is bald' appears neither true nor ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly 1,400 lifers in California's prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with the ...

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