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 ...

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 ...

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After Pervis Payne was convicted in the 1987 double murder of Chrisse Christopher and her daughter, Lacie, the judge allowed Christopher’s mother, Mary Zvolanek, to tell the sentencing jury about the ...

MINNEAPOLIS – EXCLUSIVE: It’s a victim impact statement she never got to read to Daunte Wright in court because former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter shot and killed him in an unrelated ...

An AI-generated version of road rage victim Chris Pelkey speaking to his killer in court has gone viral. We're hearing from the lawyer of Gabriel Horcacitas, the man who killed Chris, who says it was ...

The young people waited in the front rows of the classroom, an earring flashing from one guy’s ear, a woman clutching a can of Red Bull. It could have been a college class waiting for the professor.

Emotions are running high in the courtroom as families deliver gut-wrenching victim impact statements during week three of the sentencing trial for the confessed Parkland shooter. As the jury is ...

ST ANTHONY, Idaho — Lori Vallow Daybell appeared in a crowded Fremont County courtroom as she, family and friends heard victim impact statements from pre-approved people that the judge deemed closest ...

It wasn’t until Anthony Montalto was sitting next to his wife testifying in a Florida courtroom Wednesday that he realized he was wearing the same clothes he wore the last time he took his daughter ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Richard Allen, the man convicted of murder in the 2017 Delphi murders case, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday. The family of Liberty “Libby” German, one of the two ...

Alyssa Alhadeff would be in her second year of college if she hadn’t been murdered in a 2018 mass shooting at her Parkland, Florida, high school – and her father would be looking forward to watching ...