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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.

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‘Clear Errors’ About the Death Penalty

The Kentucky Supreme Court upholds an unconstitutional death penalty sentence.

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Last 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.

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‘You’ve Got African-Americans, You’ve Got Hispanics’

The Supreme Court rejects a nasty case, with prejudice.

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Disgracing ‘the Quintessential System of Justice’

Warren Lee Hill, Jr., has an I.Q. of 70. He shouldn't be on death row.

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A Stunning Error in Mississippi

Willie Manning is scheduled for execution on Tuesday. His lawyers say DNA testing could prove him innocent.

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Texas Reaches Death Penalty Milestone

The state is scheduled to execute its 500th inmate since the Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976.

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Are Georgia’s Lethal-Injection Practices Constitutional?

The state won't reveal its methods and sources for procuring drugs.

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Secrecy and the Death Penalty

Consider for a moment the plight of Warren Hill.

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Should 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.

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The 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.

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Killing Inmates the Old-Fashioned Way

The Tennessee state senate voted to allow execution by electrocution if lethal-injection drugs are unavailable.

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The Investigation of the Horrific Oklahoma Execution Will Not Be ‘Independent’

Gov. Mary Fallin appointed her own employee to lead the review.

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No Comment Necessary: ‘Fed to the Lions’

An Oklahoma lawmaker said he didn't care how his state put inmates to death.

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In Georgia, Secrecy Is More Important Than Life

Does a citizen have a right to know how his government plans to kill him?

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There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Clean’ Execution

Readers respond to a post on the mechanics of the death penalty.

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Why the Death Penalty Is Doomed

Judge Alex Kozinski launched into a meditation on why we kill people the way we do.

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George 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.

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Killing 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.

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A 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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