Justice & Punishment

On 15 July 1984, Olympic biathlete 22-year-old Kari Swenson went for a run on a mountain trail near her home in Big Sky, southwest Montana. The beautiful route winding around …
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Chicago is known nationally for their high amount of violent crime. While it fails to make the list for the nation’s most violent cities, in 2017 alone the Chicago Tribune …
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On 12 January 1830, within the beautiful and peaceful backdrop that is Iceland, one after the other 33-year-old Agnes Magnusdottir and 17-year-old Fridrik Sigurdsson were told to go to their …
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In December 1971, 37-year-old Edgar Smith was released from New Jersey’s death row. Convicted of the first-degree murder of a teenage girl in 1957, Smith, with the help of journalist …
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There are few people in this world who would open up their home and their family to a stranger in an act of kindness and generosity when seeing a fellow …
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On 4 December 1998, 21-year-old Suzanne Jovin, a political science and international-studies senior at Yale University, was found two miles away from her campus bleeding from multiple stab wounds. Lying …
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The murders of Lin and Megan Russell and the attempted murder of Josie Russell on 9 July 1996, in Chillenden in Kent, England, was a crime that truly horrified the …
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The day after Thanksgiving in 2010, three young brothers were due to return home to their mother after visiting their father for the holidays in Michigan. Instead, the boys, aged …
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In 1968, a 3-year-old child watched his stepfather murder his 19-month-old brother by swinging him from the ankles and smashing his head against a fireplace at the family home in …
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The case of David McGreavy and the appalling acts of violence he carried out on three small children in 1973 in Worcester, England is one difficult to comprehend. Entrusted by …
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