The panels, organized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), allow people convicted of driving under the influence to hear ...

Professor Edna Erez and I have a new article supporting victim impact statements. It is entitled "How Victim Impact Statements Promote Justice: Evidence from the Content of Statements Delivered in ...

Emotions are running high in the courtroom as families deliver gut-wrenching victim impact statements during week three of the sentencing trial for the confessed Parkland shooter. As the jury is ...

MINNEAPOLIS – EXCLUSIVE: It’s a victim impact statement she never got to read to Daunte Wright in court because former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter shot and killed him in an unrelated ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Students, parents, counselors, teachers and other members of the Freeman High School community listened as victim advocates read victim impact statements about the Freeman shooting ...

It wasn’t until Anthony Montalto was sitting next to his wife testifying in a Florida courtroom Wednesday that he realized he was wearing the same clothes he wore the last time he took his daughter ...

The young people waited in the front rows of the classroom, an earring flashing from one guy’s ear, a woman clutching a can of Red Bull. It could have been a college class waiting for the professor.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Richard Allen, the man convicted of murder in the 2017 Delphi murders case, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday. The family of Liberty “Libby” German, one of the two ...

EL PASO (CBSNewsTexas.com) - The federal sentencing hearing for Patrick Crusius began Wednesday morning. In February, the 24-year-old pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and firearms charges in the ...

PARKLAND, Fla. — As the Parkland shooting case nears the start of its penalty phase, Nikolas Cruz’s defense team filed several motions seeking to put limits on victim impact statements. In one motion, ...