Law & Society

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot would be freed under an amnesty bill, The Associated Press reported. The bill will also enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against arctic oil drilling to avoid trial. The moves come just a couple of months before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February.

18-year-old Karl Pierson, the Colorado student who opened fire at Arapahoe High School last week apparently planned to attack at least five different areas, investigators said on Tuesday, as reported by The Huffington Post.

Prosecutors in Texas are trying for a second time to imprison 16-year-old Ethan Couch who was sentenced last week to 10 years probation for driving drunk his truck into four pedestrians, which killed all of them