The sole questioned left for SCOTUS to consider was whether the death penalty in rape cases violated...
death penalty
The United States Supreme Court will consider whether or not to reinstate the death penalty for the...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving half of the brothers who were behind the Boston Marathon bombing, is off...
The majority in the 5-4 Furman v. Georgia decision may have been a short per curiam, but...
The writing on the wall seems to clearly indicate that the high Court would rule in favor...
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times’ Friday tradition of bringing you various links from across the web and...
![Supreme_Court_US_2010[1]](https://i0.wp.com/ordinary-times.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Supreme_Court_US_20101.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1)
The Supreme Court adjourns for the Term with decisions about redistricting, air pollution, and executions. Burt Likko...
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be "justice," vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit...
If the three-drug cocktail used for capital punishment is found cruel and unusual, how ever shall we...
A judge recently found that California's death penalty, as it is administered, is cruel and unusual punishment,...
Young people aren't liberal on all issues, namely the death penalty. Why?
Jeffrey Toobin writes of the death penalty: “The oxymoronic quest for humane executions only accentuates the...
This month’s Cato Unbound is especially interesting to me because it discusses how to integrate new facts...
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Republican nominee for President of the United States of America! I can’t...
I only caught the end of the debate, but that was enough. It was enough to remind...
I wanted to briefly respond to a few points inspired by Sonny Bunch’s defense of the death...
Sonny Bunch has written a long, impassioned defense of the death penalty. Here’s the crux of his...
Spurred by a harrowing investigative piece from The New Yorker on the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham,...
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a...
