Douglas Cogan

Texas completes execution of triple killer ... and his family gets arrested

"Clemency as the Soul of the Constitution"

Terrific new Yale Law Journal collection: "Critical Voices on Criminal Justice: Essays from Directly Affected Authors,"

SCOTUS, ruling 6-3, refuses to let appeal waivers impact ineffectiveness claims when attorney improperly fails to appeal

SCOTUS, ruling 5-3, clarifies execution competency standards and remands in Madison v. Alabama

"Failure should not be an option: Grading the parole systems of all 50 states"

FBI reports on encouraging crime data from the first half of 2018

Haymond seemingly to become major Apprendi progeny altering federal supervised release revocations

New letter urges Prez Trump "to make lasting reforms to the clemency process by removing its administration from the Department of Justice"

Paul Manafort's sentencing memorandum in DC makes pitch for a sentence "significantly below" ten years

Will Haymond argument generate any haymaker questions as SCOTUS takes up supervised release?

Excited for "The Prohibition Era and Policing" at Ohio State on March 4

After swift cert denial in Rivera-Ruperto, should I just give up hoping for an improved Eighth Amendment to check extreme non-capital sentences?

After special favors and CVRA violation, what should happen to Jeffrey Epstein and his problem prosecutors?

Another reminder that substantive reasonableness review has very little bite

Latest Manafort sentencing memorandum from Special Counsel pulls few punches

"There's a gender imbalance in many African-American neighborhoods. Mass incarceration is largely to blame."

Another call to fix good-time credit after FIRST STEP good-time credit fix

Why I am certainly hoping, but not really expecting, Timbs to end up being a big deal

"Juvenile Life Without Parole in North Carolina"

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Public to hold public briefing on "Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars"

Making a robust case for "Sending Our Prisoners to College"

"Evaluating the Impacts of Eliminating Prosecutorial Requests for Cash Bail"