Jimmie “Chris” Duncan had spent nearly 30 years on Louisiana’s death row when a district court judge named Alvin R. Sharp vacated his murder conviction last year. Sharp found that Duncan was innocent ...

In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for prosecutor by the state’s filing deadline. The information was obtained from state election officials. Candidates for prosecutor in Arkansas do not run ...

The 30 Prosecutor and Sheriff Races that Will Shape Criminal Justice Next Week Michael Barajas, , Daniel Nichanian, April 19, 2022 ...

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility ...

Alex Burness, , Daniel Nichanian, , Camille Squires, The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to ...

Elizabeth Shelton was shocked when, in late 2022, she got a letter from her county registrar saying she had lost the right to vote. She learned that Virginia was purging her from voter rolls on the ...

When Danny Tarkenton learned that federal agents had shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, she felt concerned that her local officials would not push back should ...

German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high school, he ...

In December 2020, on the eve of taking the reins as the district attorney of Los Angeles County, George Gascón was up late trying to make a decision. He’d been elected weeks earlier on promises to ...

Editor’s note: Arizonans rejected this ballot measure in November 2024. An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If ...

Faced with popular initiatives to protect abortion rights and other measures they dislike, state Republicans are passing new bills that local advocates say will hollow out direct democracy. Organizers ...