Douglas Cogan

Florida Supreme Court says Gov was within authority to remove prosecutor from capital cases

More context for contemplating Prez Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio

New report spotlights concerns with background of 26 Ohio condemned scheduled for execution in coming months and years

"Local Democracy, Community Adjudication, and Criminal Justice"

In wake of Marcellus Williams stay and inquiry, broader reflections on innocence and racial dynamics in capital punishment's administration

Third Circuit panel rejects various challenges to severe stash-house sting sentence

In latest speech, AG Sessions talks up the changed policies of the Trump Administration

Lots of commentary and criticism in wake of Prez Trump's Arpaio pardon

Helpful new Sentencing Project fact sheet on "Private Prisons in the United States"

SCOTUS fills out Fall docket with little prisoner lawsuit fee-award case

"The Use and Abuse of Mutual-Support Programs in Drug Courts"

Will deadly protests impact high-profile sentencing in India? Should they?

Split en banc Eleventh Circuit concludes Florida felony battery is "crime of violence" under FSG

As he had hinted, Prez Trump decides to make his first use of the clemency power a pardon for Joe Arpaio

"Jeff Sessions Should Be Screaming Bloody Murder About a Potential Joe Arpaio Pardon"

Supreme Court of Wyoming continues to interpret Graham and Miller broadly

Florida completes (historic?) execution 30 years after double murder

"Procedures for Proportionate Sentences: The Next Wave of Eighth Amendment Noncapital Litigation"

California Supreme Court seems to clear way for resumption of executions after resolving Prop 66 challenges against capital defendant

"Criminal Injustice: Alec Karakatsanis puts 'human caging' and 'wealth-based detention' in America on trial"

Federal district judge finds due process problems with Indiana's forfeiture procedures

"Can a General Conquer the Federal Prison System?"

Considering clemency echoes of a possible Arpaio pardon as Prez Trump's first

Looking at US prison history while charting "How to End Mass Incarceration"

Reviewing recent chapters of the long-running US "war on drugs"