A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

Perhaps the most powerful moment in the verdict came when Judge Sezer explicitly declared: “ Antisemitism is not an opinion! ...

Two men accused of one of the most shocking killing sprees in Central Florida history are due back in Volusia County court on ...

Alastair McClure, a legal historian of modern South Asia and the British Empire at the University of Hong Kong examines mercy ...

For Mandela, forgetting the past is the prerequisite for the embracement of democratic triumph over the horrors of apartheid.

"Never let this monster see the light of day again," a young woman begged the Lubbock federal district judge determining the ...

Regular Tribune Opinion contributor Jens Ludwig, Pritzker director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, has a new book, ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia stands as a magnificent ruin, a Gothic fortress that looms over the city like ...

While we luckily haven’t exactly had first-hand experience of it, it’s pretty common knowledge that punishments in the 16 th century (and throughout history ... punishment for such a crime ...

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of ...

The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 opinion, said mandatory life sentences for people who were 19 and 20 at the time of the crime violate a ban against “cruel or unusual punishment” in the Michigan ...

And when one man was given a ‘beyond evil’ punishment, he suffered what some people say was the ‘worst execution’ in history. I mean ... he also decided to change the punishment for such a crime, ...