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The Life Span of the US Death Penalty Just Got Shorter Feb. 13, 2021
The death penalty in the United States is on the verge of being snuffed out. The commonwealth of Vi... Read More
Biden Could Rid America of the Barbaric Practice of Capital Punishment Feb. 12, 2021
For the first time in its history, America has a president who is on record favoring complete abolit... Read More
Executing the Intellectually Disabled Is Morally and Legally Indefensible Jan. 22, 2021
The Trump administration carried out 12 federal executions in the administration's final six months,... Read More
Wanted: An Honest Debate about the Death Penalty Dec. 18, 2020
Mike Dukakis was asked by CNN's Bernard Shaw during the 1988 presidential debates whether he would s... Read More
Trump and Barr Are Rushing To Execute Inmates Before They Leave Office Dec. 03, 2020
The Trump administration, which carried out a slew of federal executions this year after a 17-year h... Read More
Kamala Harris: Progressive Opportunist Aug. 16, 2020
WASHINGTON — When former Vice President Joe Biden announced that Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.,... Read More
Americans Turn Away from the Death Penalty, and Democrats Are With Them Dec. 08, 2019
Kamala Harris has always opposed capital punishment. As district attorney of San Francisco, she refu... Read More
Machinery of Death Needs Mothballing as Americans Sour on Executions Nov. 26, 2019
A federal judge last week halted the scheduled executions of four federal inmates, thwarting the Tru... Read More
Death Penalty Politics Aug. 03, 2019
I have been studying death penalty politics (as well as law) for decades, largely because I've had t... Read More
Trump's Actions Prove He's No Racist Aug. 02, 2019
If actions speak louder than words, President Trump is no racist. If he were truly one, he'd be oppr... Read More
The Expensive Folly of Federal Executions Aug. 01, 2019
In recent decades, the United States has gone through a vast experiment in crime and punishment to a... Read More
Cops Deserve Safety and Respect May. 20, 2019
President Donald Trump spoke plainly Wednesday in declaring his support for law enforcement. He call... Read More
A Common-Sense Ruling on Death Penalty Drugs May. 19, 2019
WASHINGTON — If there's one thing that tells you government in America is too big and unaccoun... Read More
American Death Penalty Is Like Sharia Mar. 29, 2019
During an opening monologue on her show "Justice with Judge Jeanine," Fox News host Jeanine Pirro su... Read More
American Death Penalty Is Like Sharia Mar. 22, 2019
During an opening monologue on her show "Justice with Judge Jeanine," Fox News host Jeanine Pirro su... Read More
California Governor Praised for Things That Get Trump Condemned Mar. 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic rising ... Read More
Death at the Tree of Life Nov. 02, 2018
The rampage in a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead has become so enmeshed in election-eve debat... Read More
The DOJ Should Not Prosecute Robert Bowers: The Federal Case Against the Pittsburgh Shooter Is Redundant and Constitutionally Questionable Oct. 31, 2018
If anyone deserves execution, the man who murdered 11 mostly elderly people at a Pittsburgh synagogu... Read More
Make It Stop! Jun. 26, 2018
I pretty much support the death penalty but only when the crime is especially heinous and guilt of t... Read More
Sens. Feinstein and Durbin Are Fooling No One Sep. 08, 2017
It's rich that rule of law-scoffing Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin grilled one of... Read More
