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Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty Mar. 17, 2025
WASHINGTON — Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealt... Read More
Trump's Death Penalty Order a Challenge to the 8th Amendment Jan. 28, 2025
The first Trump administration carried out more executions than any president in at least a century.... Read More
Biden's Clemency for Federal Prisoners Is Only Part of the Story Dec. 24, 2024
SAN DIEGO — There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anyt... Read More
Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences Nov. 18, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
President-elect Donald Trump has chilling plans to use his second term to expand the federal death p... Read More
Kohberger's Attorneys Provide Glimpse Into Death Penalty Nov. 12, 2024
The death penalty is a complex and controversial form of punishment. The penalty has been around for... Read More
Remember When the Trump Administration Started Executing Federal Inmates? Sep. 24, 2024
Imagine a candidate seeking reelection to the office of president of the United States who would sys... Read More
Life Without Parole Cruel and Unusual Punishment Apr. 02, 2024
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court will consider whether some life without parole sentences for those conv... Read More
The Slow Undoing of America's Death Penalty Jan. 23, 2024
On Jan. 25, Alabama intends to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by a method known as nitrogen hypoxia. T... Read More
Missouri Lets Judges Impose Death Sentences If Juries Don't. That Should Change. Sep. 11, 2023
There's no question that Ian McCarthy shot and killed Clinton, Missouri, police officer Gary Lee Mic... Read More
How Many Did Supreme Court Sentence to Death in Recent Term? Jul. 05, 2023
The Supreme Court's ethics-tainted term ended last week. Plenty has been written on the court's mome... Read More
We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors From Death Penalty Cases Apr. 17, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Leo Jones, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white Florida jury in 1982 fo... Read More
The Ancient Greek Argument Against the Death Penalty Oct. 15, 2022
If someone deserves to die, should we kill them? That's what I asked myself recently, as I read the ... Read More
Regardless of Method, the Death Penalty Is Anathema to a Civilized Society Mar. 29, 2022
At a time when Americans are increasingly opposed to the death penalty and states are increasingly e... Read More
Executions Dwindle as Public Support Falls -- End This Barbarism, Already Dec. 24, 2021
The federal and state governments carried out just 11 executions this year, the lowest annual total ... Read More
Kamala Harris Is a Liability Dec. 19, 2021
Here's a depressing thought. The three people most likely to appear at the top of the November ballo... Read More
Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
To Honor a Killer's Last Request -- Or Not? Sep. 18, 2021
A medium-rare rib-eye steak, a baked potato with butter and sour cream, an iceberg lettuce salad, ga... Read More
Federal Execution Moratorium Should Be the First Step Toward Full Death Penalty Abolition Jul. 08, 2021
In an abrupt but appropriate reversal of Trump administration policies, President Joe Biden's Justic... Read More
Dzhokhar in the Deck Jun. 18, 2021
Many people, some of whom hold public office, want the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of a... Read More
The Death Penalty Remains the Strongest Deterrent to Violent Crime May. 28, 2021
In recent years, many states have moved away from lethal injections for those on death row, and some... Read More
