Weighing justice and vengeance -- from Boston to Cleveland to ...

, a 28-year-old woman named Trisha Meili went for a jog in New York's Central Park. She was raped and violently assaulted. Partly because of the attack's brutality, partly because of news reports the perpetrators were a gang of wilding black ...

When it comes to the death penalty, the only thing the United States can do is plead the insanity defense. The rest of the advanced world has moved on, but America resolutely remains among the top five executioners behind China, Iran and Iraq, and ...

Colorado prosecutors should have accepted James Holmes' offer of a guilty plea in a Colorado theater shooting rampage. Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, ...

South African judge and human rights activist Albie Sachs is among the foremost transitional justice experts to have emerged from the anti-apartheid struggle and subsequent transition. In this April 17, 2013 interview with ICTJ Vice President Paul ...

CANNES, France A blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Monday, with critics savaging a "risible" parade of cliches. Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled "Shield of ...

Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for ...

A few days before Christmas in 1970, a teenager named Louis Taylor was having a good time at a party at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson but quickly snapped into action when a fire broke out in the facility. The young man knocked on doors to alert guests ...

Thane Rosenbaum, director of the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society at Fordham Law School, argues that revenge and justice are not mutually exclusive ideas. The author contends that our court system would better serve victims of crimes by ...

India has seen bloodshed time and again. If our independence from the British rule saw the butchering of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims as part of the partition of India, then the years that have followed have not been peaceful either. It almost seems ...