Professor Edna Erez and I have a new article supporting victim impact statements. It is entitled "How Victim Impact Statements Promote Justice: Evidence from the Content of Statements Delivered in ...

For two years, Stacey Wales kept a running list of everything she would say at the sentencing hearing for the man who killed her brother in a road rage incident in Chandler, Ariz. But when she finally ...

In what is a first in Arizona judicial history, possibly nationwide, artificial intelligence has brought a lifelike rendering of a deceased victim for an impact statement during a sentencing hearing.

The children of slain Irishman Jason Corbett delivered powerful victim impact statements after his killers received jail sentences that could see them walk free in just seven months. Jason Corbett's ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Multiple individuals impacted by the actions of Bryan Kohberger spoke ...

A Victim Impact Statement (VIS) helps survivors of sexual grooming express how the abuse affected them emotionally, physically, and financially. It can provide emotional healing and influence ...

JONEDBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — First Judicial Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street took particular note of a victim impact statement Tuesday as Mark Sexton III and Mark Sexton Jr. both entered guilty pleas ...

FORMER PROSECUTOR PATRICIA LAFRANCE. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. PATRICIA ADAM MONTGOMERY TRANSPORTED TO THE COURTHOUSE. WE JUST SAW THAT HE’S DOING THE COURTROOM IN UNDER AN HOUR FOR THE ...

"The trauma shattered parts of me and every day I wake up, I'm rebuilding what you broke," one victim said at the sentencing hearing for Shannon O'Connor, a Los Gatos mother convicted for drunken sex ...

Tears falling down cheeks silently or seen through audible sobs filled the Ada County courtroom where Chad Daybell's sentencing process began Friday. As of press time at 5:10 p.m. Friday, jurors were ...