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US justice system

News and analysis examining the state of justice system in the US

July 2024

  • man in a suit with microphone in front of him

    Trump-appointed Alaska judge resigns after sexual misconduct investigation

    Panel says Joshua Kindred subjected staff to hostile work environment and had inappropriate relationship with clerk

June 2024

  • A single color image of a hand squashing a voter holding a ballot.

    American psyche
    She was sentenced to prison for voting. Her story is part of a Republican effort to intimidate others

  • Close up of Microsoft logo hanging from ceiling

    Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia investigated over monopoly laws

April 2024

  • Students at a degree ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

    Chinese students in US tell of ‘chilling’ interrogations and deportations

  • Supporters of Julian Assange protest in front of Westminster Magistrates Court

    US provides assurances to prevent Julian Assange appeal against extradition

  • OJ Simpson after he is found not guilty of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, 1995

    The day they set OJ Simpson free – and left America in turmoil

  • Jonathan Freedland

    The OJ Simpson trial was sensational – and a portent of the strife-torn America we see today

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Missouri death row inmate executed despite widespread calls for clemency

  • US man fatally shoots former daughter-in-law and husband during child custody hearing

  • Alec Baldwin had ‘no control’ over his emotions on Rust set, prosecutors say

  • Missouri death row inmate’s attorneys ask supreme court to block execution

February 2024

  • Glynn Simmons, who served 48 years in a US prison for a murder he didn’t commit

    I spent 48 years in prison for a murder I didn’t commit. Here’s how I fought my way to freedom

  • people, most of them masked, look down and clasp hands together in front of a restaurant

    ‘It was the perfect storm’: the fatal crash that changed criminal justice in San Francisco

  • Ivan Cantu is interviewed in the visitation room of the Polunsky Unit on 31 January.

    What I learned about the US death penalty from the next man to be executed

  • Jeff Landry<br>FILE - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. Five candidates vying to become Louisiana's next governor are set to take the stage Thursday evening, Sept. 7, 2023, for the first major televised gubernatorial debate this election season. Five weeks from Election Day, the debate will take place without the race's early front-runner, however. Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, opted to skip it after raising questions about one of the event's sponsors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    ‘Unconscionable’ criminal justice bills could fuel soaring incarceration in Louisiana

  • Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m

  • Alleged Epstein victims file suit against FBI for failing to protect them

  • Democrats work on damage control after Biden’s fiery surprise speech

January 2024

  • Gypsy Rose Blanchard in New York on 5 January.

    Gypsy Rose Blanchard on viral fame: I’m not ‘doing anything that anybody else wouldn’t do’

    Blanchard discusses embracing her spot in the public eye in upcoming interview with ABC News’s 20/20

December 2023

  • Glynn Simmons reacts after stepping out of the courthouse after Judge Amy Palumbo ruled to approve his ‘actual innocence’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on 18 December.

    Man who spent 48 years in prison for murder formally declared innocent

    Glynn Simmons, who served US’s longest wrongful imprisonment for a 1974 murder, wins rare ruling
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