The UK House of Commons voted Tuesday to advance the “Tobacco and Vapes Bill” that would make it illegal for anyone born in 2009 or later to buy tobacco and add restrictions to vaping. Legislators voted in favour of the bill in a 383 to 67 vote. Rather than banning smoking outright, the restrictions apply to [...]
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Georgia to go forward with first execution in more than 4 years after parole board denies clemency
The Georgia Parole Board denied clemency for inmate Willie James Pye on Tuesday, making him soon to be the first inmate executed in the state since 2020. Pye was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996 after the murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbough, with whom he was involved in a relationship. During the clemency meeting [...]
Corey Johnson, who is set to be executed by the federal government on January 14, filed Friday for a stay of execution with the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. His lawyers argue that his upcoming execution is unconstitutional because significant evidence of his intellectual disability was not considered at trial. In 1993, Johnson was convicted [...]
California Senate rejects bill intended to ease statewide housing woes
The California Senate voted on Thursday to reject SB50, rejecting an effort to substantially increase available housing. SB50 acknowledged, among other issues, that California’s housing has created a unfilled backlog, an increase in pricing, and “premature and unnecessary development of agricultural lands for urban uses” which has “adverse effects on the availability of those lands [...]
Retired US Supreme Court Justice Justice John Paul Stevens died on Tuesday at 99 years old. Stevens was appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 and retired in 2010 after serving more than 34 years on the bench. He was known for his evolution into a liberal-leaning judge who authored a number of precedential opinions, [...]
Supreme Court sends Ohio death penalty case back to appeals court
The Supreme Court issued an unsigned opinion Monday in Shoop v. Hill, an Ohio death penalty case, vacating a Sixth Circuit decision that Danny Hill should not be subject to the death penalty because of an intellectual disability. In 1985 Hill was convicted of the rape and murder of 12-year old Raymond Fife and sentenced [...]
California governor signs bill requiring companies to include women on boards
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Sunday that will require public corporations to include more women on their boards of directors. State Senators Toni Atkins and Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced Senate Bill 826, citing a report that one-fourth of California’s companies have no women sitting on their boards. According to their research, achieving gender parity [...]
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe commuted a death row inmate's sentence on Thursday stating the conviction was flawed. Ivan Teleguz was sentenced to death for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 2001. McAuliffe stayed the execution of...
Arkansas holds first execution in 11 years following denied Supreme Court petition
The state of Arkansas on Thursday held the execution of Ledell Lee, the first in the state in 11 years. The sentence was carried out following the denial earlier that day by the US Supreme Court [official...
US District Court Judge Kristine Baker on Saturday issued a temporary injunction blocking Arkansas' plan to execute seven inmates by the end of the month. Baker's order comes a day after Arkansas state judge Wendell...