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Capital Punishment

  1. death penalty
    The Capricious Execution of Daniel Lewis LeeThe federal government has put its first prisoner to death in 17 years. It’s still unclear why.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. death penalty
    Colorado Abolishes the Death Penalty, Becoming the 22nd State to Do SoGovernor Jared Polis obeyed COVID-19 era social distancing mandates and announced his historic signing via press release.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  3. el paso shooting
    Don’t Give the El Paso Killer the Death PenaltyFederal hate-crime charges were announced against Patrick Crusius last week.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  4. capital punishment
    It Looks Like Colorado Is Abolishing the Death PenaltyThe repeal movement’s main legislative hurdle was overcome on Friday.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  5. death penalty
    Americans Are Souring on Capital Punishment. Will It Last?For the first time on record, Americans cite life imprisonment as their preferred punishment for people convicted of murder.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  6. criminal justice
    Trump and Barr Don’t Care About Victims. They Care About Their Right to Kill.Executions of federal prisoners are set to resume in December. Victims’ families have lined up to oppose them.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  7. mass shootings
    The Trump Administration Thinks the Death Penalty Can Stop Mass ShootingsThe death penalty doesn’t deter violence. But it’s Trump’s preferred solution.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. mass shootings
    Robert Bowers Killed 11 Jewish People. The Death Penalty Is Not the Answer.The death penalty means little where casual state violence runs rampant.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. justice
    The Death Penalty Is a Farce. William Barr’s Plan Might Make It Torturous.Capital punishment in America is racist and punishes innocent people at unconscionable rates. William Barr’s plan to use pentobarbital makes it worse.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  10. capital punishment
    Texas Bans Clergy in Execution Room Instead of Extending Program to All FaithsBrett Kavanaugh wrote that Texas must allow advisers of all faiths to be in the chamber for execution, or none at all. Texas chose the second option.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. supreme court
    Neil Gorsuch: Eighth Amendment ‘Does Not Guarantee a Prisoner a Painless Death’SCOTUS ruled that Missouri may execute a man whose medical condition would likely cause him to choke on his own blood during lethal injection.
    By Matt Stieb
  12. death penalty
    Texas’s Death-Penalty System Is a Travesty. Joseph Garcia Is Proof.The death penalty in America is marked by its racism and ineptitude. In Texas on Tuesday, a man will be killed in one of its more absurd applications.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  13. Francis’s Anti–Death Penalty Statement Raises Questions for U.S. ConservativesThe Pontiff officially puts the church at odds with Donald Trump and his party, along with some traditionalist Catholics on the Supreme Court.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. Kevin Williamson Won’t Tell Me What Should Happen to Women Who Have AbortionsAfter complaining no one will just ask him, I did. Williamson won’t answer plain questions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. capital punishment
    Arkansas Carries Out First Double Execution in Two DecadesThe state has been rushing to put inmates to death before its lethal-injection drug expires.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. Virginia Votes for Electric Chair As Last ResortGoing medieval to clear the backlog. 
    By Samuel Lieberman
  17. capital punishment
    Oklahoma Attorney General Asks to Stay All Executions After Glossip Drug Mix-upHe wants to investigate why two lethal-injection drugs were swapped.
    By Jonah Shepp
  18. capital punishment
    Richard Glossip Granted Stay of Execution, But Not Because He May Be InnocentThere are questions about the legality of Oklahoma’s lethal-injection drugs.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. capital punishment
    Is Oklahoma About to Execute an Innocent Man?Richard Glossip didn’t kill his boss, and the case against him relies on the testimony of the man who did.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  20. the law
    SCOTUS: Death-Row Inmates Must Pick Their PoisonIn an explosive 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma’s lethal-injection protocol. And Breyer invites a constitutional challenge to the death penalty.
    By Cristian Farias
  21. capital punishment
    Utah Legislators Pass Bill That Makes Execution by Firing Squad LegalThe state is the only one that has used a firing squad for an execution in recent years.
    By Jaime Fuller
  22. capital punishment
    Utah Lawmaker Wants to Bring Back Firing SquadsPaul Ray argues that it’s a more “humane” method of execution.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  23. Photos: A Haunting Look at America’s Execution ChambersEven states that haven’t put anyone to death for decades tend to have a facility for doing so.
    By Jen Kirby
  24. capital punishment
    Child-Killer’s Execution Delayed Over Organ DonationThe governor called it “uncharted territory for Ohio.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. crimes and misdemeanors
    500th Execution Puts Texas 390 Ahead of Any Other StateVirginia has executed 110 people, the second-most nationally.
    By Adam Martin
  26. the gods must be crazy
    If Jesus Had Been on Trial in Virginia, Would He Have Gotten the Death Penalty?Considering Virginia is second only to Texas in the number of executions …
    By Nitasha Tiku
  27. capital punishment
    Illinois Abolishes the Death PenaltyWill other states follow?
    By Nitasha Tiku
  28. capital punishment
    Texas Prosecutors Use an Unusual Strategy to Protect the Death PenaltyThe rarely used say-nothing defense rears its head.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  29. capital punishment
    Texas and the Death Penalty: Ur Doing It WrongTexas may rule the death penalty unconstitutional.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  30. capital punishment
    DNA Tests Suggest Bush Denied Stay of Execution for Innocent ManThen-governor George W. Bush denied requests for DNA tests prior to the execution.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  31. capital punishment
    Maybe a Triple Murder Death-Penalty Trial Is Not the Best Place to Ask for a DateMurder trial or middle school — one alternative juror got confused.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  32. terrible things
    These Prison Diaries May Be Used Against You in a Court of LawJoshua Komisarjevsky’s prison diaries were used as evidence in the Connecticut triple-murder trial.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  33. capital punishment
    Candidates Leverage Death-Penalty Support for Triple Murder to Win VotesThree-quarters of registered voters support the death penalty for Steven Hayes.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  34. terrible things
    Jury Reaches Verdict in Connecticut Triple Murder CaseStephen J. Hayes will be eligible for the death penalty.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  35. justice
    Capital Punishment: The One Vote Justice Stevens Would Have ChangedHis vote on the death penalty.
    By Nitasha Tiku