Rhode Island v. America On Capital Punishment

August 11, 2011

Kudos to Rhode Island for resisting capital punishment and refusing extradition – to the United States.

The Executioner’s Tweet

June 23, 2010

Capital punishment is carried out in this country behind closed prison doors, not on network television — though, if we are trying to deter heinous crime, one would think we ought to make the death penalty as visible as we can. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff seems to have found the next best thing to live television. Moments after he ordered the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner …

We Need More Justices Like Stevens

April 14, 2010

The retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will remove my favorite jurist from public life, but I am hopeful that his thoughtful, fair-minded legacy will live on through some current justices and others yet to be appointed. Stevens, who will turn 90 next Tuesday, announced last week that he will leave the court this summer. He is our last link to an era when Supreme Court candidates were …

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