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• October 23, 2025

  Alabama Carries Out 7th Nitrogen Gas Execution

  The state of Alabama executed a man through nitrogen gas suffocation Thursday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, marking the state's seventh execution using the controversial method that an increasing number of states have adopted in recent years.

• October 23, 2025

  DOJ Seeks To End Suit Over Tying Victim Aid To Immigration

  The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Rhode Island federal judge to dismiss a suit lodged by Democratic-led states, saying the challenge to a policy barring federal grant funds from covering legal services for unauthorized or removable immigrants belongs in federal claims court.

• October 22, 2025

  Mass. Inmate's Claim Over Denied Photocopies Can Continue

  A transgender woman incarcerated at a men's prison, where she was allegedly illegally denied photocopies needed to fight her murder conviction, shouldn't have her suit against the Massachusetts Department of Justice dismissed, the state's intermediate-level appeals court ruled Wednesday, saying that her rights were potentially violated.

• October 22, 2025

  Boston Man Exonerated In 1975 Murder Sues City

  A New England man who was exonerated after spending more than 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit said the city of Boston and the detectives who helped lock him up acted maliciously and were to blame for the years stolen from him.

• October 22, 2025

  NC Lawmakers Probe 'Rogue' Legal Services Grants Process

  North Carolina State Bar leaders faced the third degree Wednesday in a state House committee hearing where Republicans sounded the alarm on grants for legal assistance programs going to what the GOP lawmakers view as left-leaning organizations, prompting a funding freeze that has threatened the operations of the state's largest legal aid group, which itself is not political.

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