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The biggest winter storm of the season slammed the Brainerd Lakes area, Duluth and the North Shore of Lake Superior. Heavy snow closed schools and caused dangerous travel conditions. It also provided a last dose of winter fun that many people had longed for.

The revelation that a Florida prosecutor’s office had a policy to more harshly punish Hispanic defendants should be a moment of reckoning for prosecutors nationwide, write Emory Law’s Kay Levine, Wake Forest Law’s Ronald Wright, and University of Arizona Law’s Marc Miller.

A professor at the Emory University School of Law is under fire after he tweeted that the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was “basically a klansman.”

A look at the legacy of racism and bias in the death penalty as the state fights to keep it.

A look at the legacy of racism and bias in the death penalty as the state fights to keep it.

Sometimes judicial defeat—even those with extraordinary costs—can be turned into political gains.

Today the death penalty, like lynching, remains a tool of populist justice.

Supreme Court decision that rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty that showed strong statistical evidence of racial disparities in…

Although Warren McCleskey had presented a sophisticated statistical analysis of data from more than 2,500 murder cases in Georgia that showed that…

Although Warren McCleskey had presented a sophisticated statistical analysis of data from more than 2,500 murder cases in Georgia that showed that…