Justice

Having twice convicted Garrett for setting a fatal fire in 1992, the Nashville DA’s office dropped the charges against him, facilitating his release.

Men traveling with Carmelo Cruz Marcos told authorities that Border Patrol agents tampered with evidence and sought to concoct a cover story.

With record levels of migrants perishing in the desert, border agents are flouting a new law requiring tallies of the dead.

Thirty years after a fatal fire sent Garrett to prison for life, a judge vacated his conviction, opening the door to his release.

In his zeal to overturn Roe and do away with abortion rights, the Supreme Court justice relies on deceptive arguments and a regressive read of the law.

The relentless right and feckless Democrats brought us here. Now, preserving access to abortion will require breaking some laws.

The ADL is leading a charge to cancel a 23-year-old Palestinian activist for a line of poetry it claims echoes a medieval antisemitic trope.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted Lucio’s execution and ordered her trial court to consider evidence of innocence.

A new book by the Innocence Project’s Chris Fabricant charts the rise and fall of bite-mark evidence and “science” in the service of law enforcement.

Punishing Disney for its opposition to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill might be retaliation, but some experts said it’d be hard to prove in court.