Remembering When the Supreme Court Actually Respected the Sanctity of Life

Janai Nelson

June 30, 2022 3:46 PM

When Will Texas Stop Executing People Whose Death Sentences Were Unconstitutional?

Joseph Margulies

June 22, 2022 2:38 PM

How Americans Got Comfortable With Killing at the Push of a Button

Rachel Plotnick

June 20, 2022 5:50 AM

A Texas Court Brazenly Defied SCOTUS. The Conservative Justices Just Rewarded It.

Mark Joseph Stern

June 13, 2022 5:41 PM

The Supreme Court Just Gutted Another Constitutional Right

Leah Litman

May 23, 2022 2:30 PM

Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Tried to Reduce Racial Bias in the Death Penalty. Did It Work?

Austin Sarat

May 11, 2022 11:01 AM

When Can the Government Execute Someone With Serious Mental Illness?

Mia Armstrong

May 04, 2022 11:10 AM

A Racist Juror Helped Send a Black Man to Death Row. Why Doesn’t SCOTUS Care?

Mark Joseph Stern

April 18, 2022 5:37 PM

Is the Supreme Court About to Allow Virtually Any Method of Execution?

Austin Sarat

March 28, 2022 1:00 PM

The Wrong Prosecutors Are Being Recalled

Lara Bazelon

March 25, 2022 5:45 AM

Saudi Arabia Puts 81 Men to Death in Largest Mass Execution in Its Modern History

Daniel Politi

March 12, 2022 5:33 PM

The Anti–Death Penalty Movement Takes a Page out of the Anti-Abortion Playbook

Austin Sarat

Feb 28, 2022 11:59 AM

Does a Fair Way to Decide Who Gets The Death Penalty Actually Exist?

Michael Meltsner and Daniel S. Medwed

Feb 22, 2022 12:22 PM

Why Are Two People on Death Row Asking to Be Executed by a Firing Squad?

Austin Sarat

Jan 14, 2022 6:00 AM

How 2021 Changed the Death Penalty

Austin Sarat

Dec 20, 2021 11:19 AM

With Julius Jones’ Commutation, Cruelty Is the Point

Austin Sarat

Nov 19, 2021 9:15 AM

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Finally Found a Religious Objection They Don’t Like

Mark Joseph Stern

Nov 09, 2021 4:30 PM

Oklahoma Botched Yet Another Execution

Austin Sarat

Nov 01, 2021 9:28 AM

Did Backlash Over the Shadow Docket Spook the Supreme Court?

Mark Joseph Stern

Sept 10, 2021 2:34 PM

The Most Popular Opera Composer of Our Time on Why His Work Resonates

June Thomas

Aug 04, 2021 10:14 AM