Capital punishment

SCOTUS: Condemned Inmate Waited Too Long to Raise Religious Discrimination Issue Dunn v Smith

SCOTUS: Condemned Inmate Waited Too Long to Raise Religious Discrimination Issue

Em Carpenter February 9, 2019

A practicing Muslim requested the presence of his imam at his execution and was told no; he'd...

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The 2016 First Monday In October Report Is Here! USSC

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The 2016 First Monday In October Report Is Here!

Burt Likko October 3, 2016

A preview of selected cases appearing on the United States Supreme Court's docket for the 2016-2017 Term....

Know Your Executioner hangman

Know Your Executioner

Burt Likko July 18, 2015

A condemned man in Tennessee wants his lawyers to depose the people who would be his executioners.

Big Monday, 2015 Supreme_Court_US_2010[1]

Big Monday, 2015

Burt Likko June 29, 2015

The Supreme Court adjourns for the Term with decisions about redistricting, air pollution, and executions. Burt Likko...

On Death And Execution Stay of Execution

On Death And Execution

Burt Likko May 5, 2015

If the three-drug cocktail used for capital punishment is found cruel and unusual, how ever shall we...

Punishment Capital IFRL-NaPP-Space-39863609892_ed285e965d_b

Punishment Capital

Christopher Carr December 17, 2013

Jeffrey Toobin writes of the death penalty: “The oxymoronic quest for humane executions only accentuates the...

A few more thoughts on the death penalty IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-reinasofia.women-at-the-siege-of-the-alcazar-in-toledo-447

A few more thoughts on the death penalty

Will November 10, 2009

I wanted to briefly respond to a few points inspired by Sonny Bunch’s defense of the death...

A Time to Kill IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-34385864146_c55d0419ee_c

A Time to Kill

Will November 4, 2009

Sonny Bunch has written a long, impassioned defense of the death penalty. Here’s the crux of his...

Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025And, to be perfectly honest, removing Hogg from his seat not because "you can't sabotage Dems in goo…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.
LeeEsq in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Like it should be blindingly obvious to people that there is a big issue in Islam's adopting to mode…
Saul Degraw in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Eh. I think David Hogg should have stayed but that in the end this is kind of gossip for the very on…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The DNC is run by f*cking idiots. This is why no one believes Democrats about anything. If Trump was…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025Good news/Bad news. The bad news first: David Hogg's election to the position of Vice-Chair is a ste…
Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe Chronicles of Higher Education has a cri de coeur: Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? It…
Michael Cain in reply to Derek S on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025There are lots of generators/motors at conventional hydro power plants and pumped hydro storage syst…
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Susara Blommetjie in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025I am an Afrikaner. I, and most Afrikaners, think this enire refugee thing is redicilous and embarass…