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drug deaths fall for first time in nearly 20 years, buoying us life

Progress on drug overdoses was also uneven by state. California, Delaware, Missouri, New Jersey, and South Carolina all had a higher number of deaths from drugs in 2018 than in 2017. . ..

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joe biden and the flawed violence against women act, revisited

And it was the now-solid blue state California that passed one of the earliest three-strikes laws in the country, quickly copied ) Amid the growing belief that criminalization fixed problems, the government, with Clinton now in the executive chair, got in on the action with the 1994 crime..

us: california suspends death penalty

Newsom has recognized the cruelty, the moral and fiscal costs, and the discriminatory nature of death sentencing in the state. California has approximately 740 prisoners on death row, more than twice as many as any other state. . ..

catalonia's independence movement

In short, in the movement was exposed on the one hand, it's the bearer of demand, that Spanish state ca not concede it has been extraordinarily moderate movement, in its forms of action and in its conception of political change. ..

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