The Case That Made Clarence Thomas Speak for the First Time in Three Years

Dahlia Lithwick

April 13, 2019 10:00 AM

Texas Seeks to Deny All Inmates Access to Clergy at Execution Rather Than Accommodate a Buddhist

Mark Joseph Stern

April 03, 2019 5:36 PM

The Supreme Court’s Bitter Feud Over a Controversial Death Penalty Case Boils Over Into the Public

Mark Joseph Stern

April 02, 2019 4:24 PM

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Legalized Torture

Mark Joseph Stern

April 01, 2019 1:14 PM

Why Did Brett Kavanaugh Change His Mind About the Rights of Religious Minorities in the Execution Chamber?

Mark Joseph Stern

March 29, 2019 5:30 PM

Is the Tide Finally Turning on the Death Penalty?

Jeremy Stahl

March 28, 2019 11:36 AM

Why Capital Punishment Policy Lingers, Even Though Death Penalty Cases Have Cratered in Recent Years

Mary Harris

March 22, 2019 5:00 AM

Gov. Newsom to Sign Executive Order Halting Death Penalty in California

Elliot Hannon

March 12, 2019 11:32 PM

Roberts Confirms He’s the New Swing Justice

Mark Joseph Stern

Feb 27, 2019 12:12 PM

Trump Is the Least Pro-Life President Ever

William Saletan

Feb 08, 2019 8:03 PM

Appeals Court Blocks Alabama From Executing Muslim Inmate Without the Presence of His Imam

Mark Joseph Stern

Feb 06, 2019 5:48 PM

The Electric Chair Is Back and the Death Penalty Is on Life Support

Austin Sarat

Dec 11, 2018 2:36 PM

Washington Supreme Court Outlaws Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders

Mark Joseph Stern

Oct 18, 2018 1:57 PM

Washington Supreme Court Outlaws Death Penalty in the State for Good

Mark Joseph Stern

Oct 11, 2018 12:26 PM

The Key Supreme Court Cases That Will Be Affected if Kavanaugh Doesn’t Get Confirmed in September

Mark Joseph Stern

Sept 18, 2018 7:35 PM

Pope Francis Declares, “The Death Penalty Is Inadmissible”

Matthew Zeitlin

Aug 02, 2018 10:38 AM

The Latest ISIS Casualty: Britain’s Principled Opposition to the Death Penalty

Nadim Houry

July 26, 2018 12:08 PM

The Trauma of Trying—and Failing—to Save Someone From Death Row

Susannah Sheffer

Sept 29, 2017 12:00 AM

Why Jurors Are Rejecting the Death Penalty

Brandon L. Garrett

July 11, 2017 2:31 PM

What It Was Like to Wait for Death With One of the Men Executed in Arkansas

Ibby Caputo

May 19, 2017 6:43 PM