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A debate over whether homeless people should be allowed to sleep in public has created strange bedfellows in California.

Arizona Republican leaders hope the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case that could change how lawmakers can deal with homeless encampments.

Cash bail is too often about money, not whether a defendant poses a community risk.

MONTGOMERY — The fate of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith could be decided in a matter of weeks as possibly the first execution by gas in Alabama.

San Diego city officials are debating joining a federal court case out of Oregon that is looking to get the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on rules that have barred cities from clearing homeless encampments without available shelter beds.

MONTGOMERY — The fate of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith could be decided in a matter of weeks as possibly the first execution by gas in Alabama.

MONTGOMERY — The fate of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith could be decided in a matter of weeks as possibly the first execution by gas in Alabama.

MONTGOMERY — The fate of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith could be decided in a matter of weeks as possibly the first execution by gas in Alabama.

The lawsuit filed by ACLU claims that the new law violates the Eight Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and that gender affirming care is "necessary and even lifesaving."

The state's notoriously overcrowded prisons are finally seeing some relief. But it wasn't the state that catalyzed the change -- it was the voters.