The UK Prime Minister announced on Saturday that judges will be required under planned legislation to impose mandatory “whole life orders,” which prevent prisoners sentenced to life in prison from receiving parole, on people convicted of the “most horrific types of murder.” This means they will die in prison. In his statement, Prime Minister Rishi [...]
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Ukraine dispatch: Russian plans to create new international rights court are a cause for concern
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Anna Balabina, a law student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. It is widely known that a country is often hugely influenced by what happens in a neighboring state. In the case [...]
Federal judge voids 2002 Beltway-sniper-killer life sentences
Judge Raymond Jackson of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday tossed out the life sentences imposed by Virginia courts for Lee Boyd Malvo , ruling that...
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel J. Wright of The Law Office of Daniel Wright discusses the need to revisit life without parole sentencing in the US justice system..."No one truly knows a nation," Nelson Mandela wrote, "until one has been inside...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday sentenced a convicted terrorist to a 37-year prison sentence for a 1999 plot to blow up the Los Angeles International...