BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St. Tammany Parish. Back when he was put on death row ...

the Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row could make last-minute claims that the chemicals in lethal injections are too painful and violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

March 2, 2025 [Photo: Arab American Civil Rights League] Danielle Khalaf, 14, an eighth-grader at East Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, is fighting to defend her First Amendment rights under ...

Advice from an English teacher in Massachusetts for guiding teenagers to think critically but not cynically about the information they consume. By David Nurenberg This collection of interactive ...

A gun rights group is urging the Supreme Court to take up a case that could strike down laws barring people between the ages of 18 and 20 from obtaining handgun permits, citing a growing split ...

January 23, 2025 • The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change?

When Gov. Spencer Cox signed Utah’s public labor union bill, the state became the third to ban public-sector unions from collective bargaining. This bold move will bring tax savings to Utahns ...

My advice to congressional Democrats: If you’re going to embrace performative politics, be sure you give a good performance. Instead, the Dems at President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint ...

During a board meeting Jan. 10, educators explained that “Maus” was an “anchor text” for McMinn County’s eighth-grade English ... includes profanity and a drawing of the author’s ...

In fact, Liverpool are now just five wins and a draw away from the Premier League title, even if the Gunners were to win all nine of their remaining games. The leaders weren’t actually in League ...