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The University of Virginia Federalist Society hosted a virtual debate on the death penalty with former federal prosecutor Bill Otis and Carol Steiker, a Harvard law professor and author of C…

Legal academics and advocates testified on criminal penalties. They appeared before the House Judiciary Committee Over-Criminalization Task Force, created in 2013 to assess current statutes …

Witnesses testified about the application of the federal death penalty. Topics included federal jurisdiction in a locality such as Puerto Rico that has outlawed capital punishment, the Depar…

Witnesses testified about proposed legislation to protect defendants in capital cases. Among the issues they addressed were several recent death penalty convictions overturned after defendan…

Witnesses testified about sentencing guidelines across the U.S. Among the issues they addressed were how the guidelines were being applied, reviews of departures from the guidelines, and the…

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy held a discussion on Miranda v. Arizona. Participants talked about the admissibility of voluntary confessions in court cases and the constitu…