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The article details the author's conversation with Adrian Loya, the U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer who killed his former colleague Lisa Berlanga and her wife Anna Trubnikova in their Cape Cod home in Massachusetts on February 5, 2015. Topics mentioned include Loya's sexual harassment claim against Berlanga as his motive for the killings, the differing mental health assessments given by the forensic psychiatrists, and his problematic behavior during his childhood.

The article focuses on the authentication of Teisamenos decree of Law documents. Topics discussed include the book "On the Mysteries" about the revision and republication of the Athenian laws, republication of Athenian legislator Draco's homicide law, and speech of Greek writer Lysias against priest Nikomachos.

The article focuses on aims and methodology of research conducted by scientists related to intimate partner homicides in Victoria. Topics discussed include social and legal theoretical analysis of several cases of intimate partner homicides or violence against women; killing of an intimate partner in sexual intimacy homicides and cases of homicides in which women killed intimate partners.

The article focuses on recognition of family violence for intimate partner homicides since 2005 Victorian law reforms. Topics discussed include changes in law reforms regarding gender nature of intimate partner homicides; separation of intimate partners leading to homicides; and need to educate people regarding family violence.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various topics within the issue including changes to homicide laws; death reviews in Australia and identification of psychotic mental illness.

In 2012, the U. S. Supreme Court decided Miller v. Alabama, in which the Court held that mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In place of statutorily mandated life without parole sentences, the Court requires an individualized sentencing procedure that takes into account youth and the circumstances of the crime as mitigating factors. In doing so, the Court broke with its decisions in Roper v. Simmons and Graham v. Florida. Both cases emphasized the dangers of individualized sentencing procedures for juveniles and chose instead to institute categorical bans on, respectively, the juvenile death penalty and juvenile life without parole sentences for nonhomicide offenders. This Note examines the trio of Supreme Court cases that consider categorical bans for juveniles in relation to the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and the trio of Iowa Supreme Court cases that arose in August 2013, after the Supreme Court decided Miller. It discusses the psychological studies and international norms that both courts found persuasive in their decisions and argues why both the United States and Iowa should no longer remain the outliers in the area of juvenile life without parole sentences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A woman allegedly tried to pass methamphetamine to her boyfriend, who was in prison, in a kiss. The methamphetamine was in a balloon, which he swallowed. He died from an overdose in the hospital. She is being charged with murder. This happened in Tennessee. See the press release from the Tennessee Department of Correction for more: https://www.tn.gov/correction/news/2022/8/16/tdoc‐visitor‐charged‐with‐murder‐in‐overdose‐death.html. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the implications of the changes in the laws for juvenile court in Wisconsin. Topics discussed include reforms for the laws related to rescue of children from adult prisons, laws for the regulation of confidentiality of the records, and the laws for the regulation of homicide cases. It further discusses the judicial opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court on the juvenile rights.

The article talks about legal issues pertaining to investigation of self-defense homicides. Topics discussed include legal justification of the case on basis of innocence of defender, fear of injury and castle doctrine that focuses use of weapon to protect an individual's home, challenges while analysis of such cases which constitute of incomplete investigations, destruction of crime scene as well as improper statements of the involved persons and role of red flag warnings regarding the same.

The article discusses the benefits of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by the Countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as a solution tool for the region's increasing homicides and aggravated assaults. It mentions that the region has overlapping manifestation of armed violence manifested in form of assaults and homicides fearing public welfare. It also highlights the implementation of the Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) as threat to ammunition to regional security.

The article discusses how to assess and handle the risks confronted by lone workers. Based on the British Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance, a lone worker is an individual who works by himself/herself without close or direct supervision. Examples of a lone worker are security staff, maintenance workers and environment inspectors. It cites several laws covering lone workers in Great Britain, including the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974.

The author presents a personal narrative of her experience as a juror on a criminal trial for murder, and how she discovered that observing crucial details and documentation for crime solving also form a crucial part of a dental hygienist's work.

The article analyses the offence of negligent entrustment and applies its principles to the aircraft lease contract to determine the lessor and lessee liabilities. Negligent entrustment arises when one party is held liable for negligence for negligently providing another party with an object which could cause harm to another and the latter caused injury to a third party with that object. The provisions of the Corporate Manslaughter Corporate Homicide Act of 2007 which is being applied by common law countries are discussed.

The article discusses a court case regarding the liability of suspects who committed familial homicide offence against children and vulnerable adults. It states that lawmaking bodies decided to have the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 under Section 5 to propose solution for the offence and protect not only the children, but also the vulnerable adults. However, it adds that Court of Appeals also discussed the possibility of personal circumstances in the commitment of the offence.

This paper considers Judge Ted Noble's 1997 ruling of the Latimer case in terms of how it rhetorically constructs and privileges the normal, able-bodied status quo, while, at the same time, deconstructs and positions as inferior the "abnormal," dis-abled minority. In this case, Noble not only took the unprecedented step of granting Robert Latimer-the Saskatchewan farmer who killed his twelve-year-old disabled daughter, Tracy, by putting her into the front seat of his truck and poisoning her with carbon monoxide gas-a constitutional exemption, but also attempted to create a lenient category of murder called compassionate homicide. Although Latimer's eventual conviction of seconddegree murder in 2001 might imply that justice was done, the violent and decidedly unconstitutional rhetoric employed by Noble points to the way in which the law legitimates normative models of personhood and citizenship that rest, problematically, on the elimination, figuratively and literally, of people, who, like Tracy Latimer, disturb the "normal" vision and would, in Noble's terms, be "better off dead." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last week, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner released the cause of death report of George Floyd, and when celebrity website TMZ got hold of it, it started what seemed like blaming the victim. Floyd's murder by the police was followed by days of protests around the country. The Minneapolis police officers involved — one choked him to death with a knee on his throat while the others watched — were fired. But TMZ's headline said "M.E. says he died from heart attack, had fentanyl...," and the article went on to interpret the death certificate as follows: "In other words ... he suffered a heart attack while they were arresting him, and that complicated their efforts to subdue him. The report says George had fentanyl in his system, and they also found signs of recent methamphetamine use. It also says his manner of death is homicide." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his role in the death of Thomas Youk, a man with advanced-stage Lou Gherig's disease. Kevorkian's desire to be formally charged with murder in a mercy killing case; How Kevorkian has moved the debate in the United States from physician assisted suicide to euthanasia; Speculation about the public attitude toward euthanasia; Why Kevorkian may be acquitted in the first degree murder trial.

The article presents the highlights of several appellate court cases under Arizona jurisdiction. It presents the summary of several cases including a criminal case in which death penalty has been changed to consecutive life terms of imprisonment, a civil case related to anti deficiency protection law and a case related to the opinion of medical examiner on death due to homicide. It further mentions that the anti-deficiency protection law is not destroyed by refinancing a purchase money loan.

The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court cases Miller versus Alabama and Jackson versus Hobbs, which deal with juveniles receiving life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) for homicide offenses. The issue in the cases is whether the imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a 14-year-old child convicted of homicide violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.

The article discusses evidence which has been obtained in 2011 and suggests that a British police officer named Colin Welsh has approved a policy for discrediting expert defense witnesses in shaken baby cases.

The article reports that American Psychological Association (APA) expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court decided against hearing the case of Dassey v. Dittman, which focused on the susceptibility of juveniles and people of limited mental capacity to make false confessions. It mentions views of Jessica Henderson Daniel, president of APA, on psychological research. It presents information on confessions made by Brendan Dassey, subject of the Netflix series "Making a Murderer".

The article discusses legal issues on the crime of industrial manslaughter in Australia. Topics include the recommendation in a report by the former Executive Director of Safe Work South Australia for a new offence of industrial manslaughter be introduced into the model Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws, inquiry into industrial deaths completed by the Australian Senate Education and Employment References Committee in 2018, and support of many Australian unions for industrial manslaughter laws.

The article provides an overview of research findings relating to clearance rates for homicide in the U.S. It highlights a statistics of the annual number of homicides solved, which indicates a dramatic decline in homicide clearance rates since the 1960s calling attention to increased legal constraints on police practices. It offers several approach to consider to formulate strategies to increase homicide solvability.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article of Christopher Cordess that was published in the January 9, 2014 issue which discusses Cordess's criticism on the definition of diminished responsibility under Great Britain's Homicide Act of 1957.

The article explores the 40% increase in the number of new corporate manslaughter cases heard by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2012, when a total of 63 cases were opened compared to 45 cases seen in 2011.

The article reports that the decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court stating the unconstitutionality of laws providing for mandatory life sentences without parole for youths age 14 and under convicted of homicide, was lauded by the American Psychological Association (APA).

This section offers mental health-related news briefs in the U.S., including the partnership of the Brundidge Business Association and the East Central Children's Health Collaborative Project to bring greater awareness of the mental health services available in Pike, Bullock and Macon counties and the stabbing of mental health worker Brent Redd while visiting a client in St. Helens.

The article reports on a 2012 decision which the Los Angeles, California County District Attorney, Steve Cooley, made to charge physician Hsiu-Ying Tseng with murder after three of the doctor's patients died of prescription drug overdoses.

The article focuses on the similarities on the rates of both children abuse and adult homicide suspects, which has been reported on the October 2010 issue of "Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine."

The article reports that Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be found guilty of corporate manslaughter in Great Britain. The company was sentenced and fined 385,000 British pounds by the Winchester Crown Court for the death of geologist Alex Wright who died from a collapsed trench while investigating soil conditions for the company in 2008. The article cites that the conviction of Cotswold was decided in consideration of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of April 2008.

The article discusses the legal issue concerning the deaths of student-athletes from to heat-related causes in the U.S. It cites Eraste Austin, a high school student in Florida, and Rashidi Wheeler, a Northwestern University student, who died from heat-related causes. It also mentions the case of David Jason Stinson, a high school football coach from Louiseville, Kentucky who was charged with reckless homicide in the heat-related death of one of his players.