Jordan Smith

The Texas state bar has sued former prosecutor John Jackson for misconduct in the notorious case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed for murder in 2004.

After a sweeping review of Oklahoma’s system of capital punishment, a bipartisan panel warns that the state must correct “systemic flaws.”

Texas has long used a standard for mental disability that was based on the fictional character of Lennie Small in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”

State Attorney Aramis Ayala has drawn the ire of Florida Republicans for her decision to stop pursuing the death penalty.

Cutting the Legal Services Corporation from the federal budget would deny millions of people access to civil representation and disproportionately impact women.

If the Missouri public defender system collapses, prosecutions could grind to a halt while the state’s jails fill up — all at great public expense.

Doctors and women’s health advocates point out that the fetal burial bill would apply to miscarriages as well as abortions.

Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, women faced a number of barriers to care that are not shared by men.

Oklahoma ranks second behind Louisiana for the sheer number of abortion restrictions passed since 1973.

Stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding could seriously damage the networks of providers that offer women’s health services, leaving thousands of women without access to preventive care.