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7 Jan 2014, 10:56 am
Alabama, which holds that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment, but states that judges still have the discretion to impose such sentences following a hearing to determine whether life-without-parole is appropriate. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 9:59 am by Tom Smith
The fiercest outbreak of arctic air in two decades — a “polar vortex” that has paralyzed air travel, closed roads and schools and been blamed for at least 16 deaths — locked almost the entire United States under subfreezing temperatures Tuesday.As the worst of the winter blast shoved east, single-digit temperatures were recorded at sunrise as far south as Georgia and Alabama, and parts of Minnesota were as cold as 25 degrees below zero.The major cities of… [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
State legislatures will be gaveled into session by the end of January in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 10:05 am by Paul Horwitz
 The Alabama Law Review will be hosting its own fiftieth anniversary symposium later this year; it's not surprising to me that two states in the Deep South, which figured so prominently in the outcome of the case, have felt duty-bound to revisit it. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 9:34 am
The state keeps detailed records that are readily available to the public, but since the state is so large, it also “offers a portrait of the industry. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Alabama law now says it’s OK to make homemade beer, mead, cider and table wine. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 6:53 pm
While there were also no injuries in the Alabama derailment, residents of the Quebec town of Lac Megantic were not so lucky in July, when a train carrying crude from North Dakota derailed, killing 47 people. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 8:38 am
Once over the bridge they were met by Alabama State Troopers who ordered them to break up their march. [read post]
It was only the second time in 19 years that the number of executions dropped below 40. 9… Only nine states carried out executions in 2013, and the great majority of them took place in only two states:  Florida and Texas. 8… While Texas remained a leader in executions among death penalty states, new death sentences in the state continued to decline. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 12:17 pm by By Jonathan Blazer, ACLU
Some states, such as Alabama, even tried to "one-up" Arizona in severity. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 10:05 am by Ruby Powers
Alabama passed the nation’s strictest immigration law in 2011, modeled after ALEC’s “No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 10:00 pm
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Alabama was among the top twenty (20) states nationally in number of drug overdose deaths each year. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 6:11 pm by Jon Gelman
Nationally, 3.0% of medical visits were due to ILI, compared with the national baseline of 2.0%.States with high ILI activity were Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 11:07 am by Steven Eversole
State and federal officials are cracking down on meth production, distribution and trafficking and are aggressively charging and penalizing offenders. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 4:00 pm
State and federal officials are cracking down on meth production, distribution and trafficking and are aggressively charging and penalizing offenders. [read post]