Law & Courts Archives

The salvaged law converts death sentences to life without parole as relief from racist trial practices. But writer and death row prisoner Lyle May says life without parole is just 'silent execution.'

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North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

This North Carolina law lets police keep racism and abuse under wraps

How Georgia's court-appointed advocates are failing children and parents

What it will take for progressives to win the South in November

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of Black kids charged as adults

Progressive wins in Virginia are limited as long as "Dillon's Rule" is on the books

What's in store for North Carolina politics in 2018

A civil rights legacy under attack

Who gets to legislate heritage in Virginia?

The Louisianan challenging juvenile life sentences at the Supreme Court

Constituting North Carolina

The Police, the Law, and the Unjustified Use of Force

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