North Carolina Regresses on Race and Gender Bias
North Carolina legislators are doing a terrific job of pushing their state back to its darker chapters of history.
View Article‘Clear Errors’ About the Death Penalty
The Kentucky Supreme Court upholds an unconstitutional death penalty sentence.
View ArticleLast Chance for Warren Lee Hill
At 7 p.m., the state of Georgia is scheduled to execute an intellectually disabled inmate with an I.Q. of 70.
View Article‘You’ve Got African-Americans, You’ve Got Hispanics’
The Supreme Court rejects a nasty case, with prejudice.
View ArticleDisgracing ‘the Quintessential System of Justice’
Warren Lee Hill, Jr., has an I.Q. of 70. He shouldn't be on death row.
View ArticleA Stunning Error in Mississippi
Willie Manning is scheduled for execution on Tuesday. His lawyers say DNA testing could prove him innocent.
View ArticleTexas Reaches Death Penalty Milestone
The state is scheduled to execute its 500th inmate since the Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976.
View ArticleAre Georgia’s Lethal-Injection Practices Constitutional?
The state won't reveal its methods and sources for procuring drugs.
View ArticleShould Hasan Get the Death Penalty?
There's no doubt he killed 13 people at Fort Hood, yet there's still a case to be made that he should not be executed.
View ArticleThe Senate’s Hierarchy of Victimhood
Debo Adegbile did his job, and for that he was deemed unfit to become the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
View ArticleKilling Inmates the Old-Fashioned Way
The Tennessee state senate voted to allow execution by electrocution if lethal-injection drugs are unavailable.
View ArticleThe Investigation of the Horrific Oklahoma Execution Will Not Be ‘Independent’
Gov. Mary Fallin appointed her own employee to lead the review.
View ArticleNo Comment Necessary: ‘Fed to the Lions’
An Oklahoma lawmaker said he didn't care how his state put inmates to death.
View ArticleIn Georgia, Secrecy Is More Important Than Life
Does a citizen have a right to know how his government plans to kill him?
View ArticleThere Is No Such Thing as a ‘Clean’ Execution
Readers respond to a post on the mechanics of the death penalty.
View ArticleWhy the Death Penalty Is Doomed
Judge Alex Kozinski launched into a meditation on why we kill people the way we do.
View ArticleGeorge Stinney’s Conviction Tossed Out … 70 Years After Execution
A 14-year-old black boy, he was convicted of killing two white girls in a wildly unfair trial.
View ArticleKilling Them Softly, at the Supreme Court
Several justices seem to think the use of substandard drugs for lethal injection might be justified if better drugs aren’t available.
View ArticleA Death the Supreme Court Should Remember
A former inmate’s death soon after his exoneration drives home Justice Breyer’s concerns about capital punishment.
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