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Residents and technology muscle crime off Bloomington Avenue

Residents and technology muscle crime off Bloomington Avenue

The latest numbers show crime in Minneapolis is down compared to last year. Nowhere is the decline more obvious and welcome than on a main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis.
by Dan Olson

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Justice Breyer reflects on writing dissents

Justice Breyer reflects on writing dissents

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Harvard political philosophy Professor Michael Sandel discussed the High Court's recent rightward drift as part of the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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First execution in South Dakota in 60 years set for 10 pm

First execution in South Dakota in 60 years set for 10 pm

Elijah Page is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:00 p.m. It will be the first execution in South Dakota in 60 years.
by Cara Hetland

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South Dakota execution scheduled for July

South Dakota execution scheduled for July

Elijah Page's execution was delayed last summer because the state's lethal injection laws were questioned. New laws are in place but some opponents of the death penalty say they only complicate the issue and lay the ground work for further legal challenges.
by Cara Hetland

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Minnesota Supreme Court rules sex offenders don't have to confess to crime

Threatening sex offenders with more time behind bars if they don't admit their crimes in prison treatment programs violates their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
by Elizabeth Stawicki

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A new direction for the Supreme Court

A new direction for the Supreme Court

Supreme Court justices have been busy this week, handing down rulings on issues from free speech to the death penalty to school segregation. The 5-to-4 decisions signal a new, more conservative court.

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South Dakota prepares again, for execution

South Dakota prepares again, for execution

Officials in South Dakota are preparing for the state's first execution in 60 years; an execution that was delayed at the last minute, last summer.
by Cara Hetland

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Supreme Court allows "issue ads" close to elections

Supreme Court allows "issue ads" close to elections

In a case originating in Wisconsin, the Supreme Court loosened restrictions Monday on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.

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