The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Marshall Project staff writer Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong. Jerry Jurek was convicted of killing 10-year-old Wendy Adams in 1973. His case went to the Supreme Court as one of several testing new death penalty laws around the country. Pictured here in 1979, left, and 2015, right. Left, Bruce Jackson; right, Maurice Chammah Looking Back at the stories about, and excerpts from, the history of criminal justice.
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The town of Cuero, halfway between San Antonio and the Gulf Coast, was small enough that a child’s disappearance would be noticed quickly. In August 1973, a little after dusk, the grandmother of 10-year-old Wendy Adams arrived to pick her up at the pool in the town park. Her clothes were still in a locker. “The child was obedient,” her grandmother later recalled, “a
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The U.S. Postal Service has hit the brakes in its legal fight to maintain changes that led to slower mail delivery, effectively allowing injunctions blocking those reforms to remain in place.
USPS has ended its appeals of preliminary losses in a series of lawsuits, though the mailing agency will keep up its fight through the normal litigation process. The lawsuits across the country followed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s efforts to overhaul operations in moves he said would lead to quicker and more efficient deliveries, but which ultimately had the opposite effect.
The Royal Courts of Justice, which house the High Court of England and Wales, where the judicial review was heard. (DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)
A coalition of pro-trans groups has applied to intervene in the NHS appeal against the High Court’s ruling on puberty blockers.
The intervention by LGBT+ rights charity Stonewall, national trans-led charity Gendered Intelligence, young people’s sexual health charity Brook and the Endocrine Society, the world’s largest organisation dedicated to hormone health, was filed Tuesday (26 January).
They say they want to “speak for the voices that were not directly heard in the original court judgment, in particular the voice of the child”.
The Allies entered Auschwitz 76 years ago this week, far too late for the 1.1 million men, women, children, and babies, nearly all of them Jews, who had been murdered there in the previous five years. Among the dead were my fatherâs parents, sisters, and brothers, who had died in the Auschwitz gas chambers the previous spring. The campâs liberation came too late for my father as well. Ten days earlier, he had been sent on a forced march to the west, ending up at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria. Not until May 1945 did the US Armyâs 80th Infantry Division reach Ebensee. By then, my father, who was 19, was nearly dead. The Americans arrived just in time to save his life.
The role of dark money in nonprofits is going to have its day in the Supreme Court.
The plaintiff, and many of the filers of 22 amicus briefs, are connected to the influential ultrawealthy Koch family.
The ruling could have far-reaching consequences for money and politics.
Billionaire Charles Koch hails from one of the most influential (and wealthy) families in family. Behind Koch Industries, a conglomerate that produces everything from toilet paper to crude oil, the Kochs are known for reshaping American politics by putting millions behind conservative causes like lowering taxes and undercutting climate science and for contributing to likeminded several think tanks and nonprofits.