Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” for which he received a ...

A Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue ... CNN had treated the plaintiff as guilty until proven innocent.

Scott Turow’s “Presumed Guilty” brings back Rožat “Rusty” Sabich, the attorney protagonist from Mr. Turow’s 1987 debut novel, “Presumed Innocent,” a work that set a high standard ...

Chiefs' Reid goes for ring No. 4 A Texas truck driver charged in the deaths of 53 migrants who rode in a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning pleaded guilty Thursday over the 2022 ...

A Texas truck driver charged in the deaths of 53 migrants who rode in a sweltering tractor-trailer with no air conditioning pleaded guilty Thursday ... been packed with 67 people, and the dead ...