Justice & Punishment

On 25 October 1972, 27-year-old Richard Phillips stood in front of a judge in Wayne County, Michigan and listened as he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life …
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At 80-years-old, convicted killer Peter Pickering has spent the last 46 years of his life locked up in a psychiatric unit with little possibility of release. A violent sexual predator …
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The murder of 49-year-old Garry Newlove on 10 August 2007 in Warrington, Cheshire shocked people across the nation. He was a loving and hard-working man spending the evening at home …
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Four university students have been convicted at Manchester Crown Court of conspiracy to import, export and supply controlled drugs through the dark web trafficking site Silk Road, before it was …
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In 1928, with a failed political career trailing behind him in Australia, 48-year-old Englishman Thomas John Ley returned to England with his mistress looking to start again. In the late …
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On 6 October 2014, 70-year-old Harry Street stood in the dock at Birmingham Crown Court in the West Midlands, England and listened as the judge sentenced him to a secure …
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On 15 March 2018, 50-year-old Michael Wayne Eggers was executed by lethal injection in Alabama.  Eggers had received word less than two hours earlier that a stay of execution request …
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In March 2004, 49-year-old Antoni Imiela was convicted of a series of shocking sexual attacks on young girls and women across five counties in England, earning him the moniker the …
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On 27 July 1987, in the quiet neighborhood of Buttonwoods in Warwick, Rhode Island, a 27-year-old mother of two was stabbed 58 times in her head and chest. Rebecca Spencer’s …
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It’s been nearly 40 years since Anthony and Nathaniel Cook rocked the streets of Toledo, Ohio, leaving a trail of bodies and terror in their wake. Beginning in 1973, Anthony …
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