Supreme Court Is In the Bag For Trump
As much as I loathe quoting the Christian Bible, there is a scripture from 1 Corinthians, 13:11: “When I was
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Federal government dishonors Navajo with death penalty
Amidst the coronavirus devastation, it’s important not to overlook the fact that, at the end of April, two federal appellate
Read moreCOVID-19 exposes the selfishness of the death penalty
Capital punishment has always been perverse, but during our country’s struggle with the coronavirus, its selfishness sticks out like a
Read more“Just Mercy” and justice? Not in Alabama
The chance of there being “just mercy” for Nathaniel Woods—facing lethal injection on March 5 for the killing of three
Read moreDeath penalty horror: Stark disparities in media and activist attention
On November 12, intrepid abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean tweeted to her legions of followers: “What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Gigi
Read moreAlabama’s contract to gas humans to death is shrouded in sick secrecy
For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new
Read moreMorality is required to abolish the death penalty
In“How to Convince Americans to Abolish the Death Penalty,” Amherst Professor Austin Sarat asserts “important lessons about how abolitionists can
Read moreJulius Jones’s Hail Mary to escape a 21st-Century-style lynching
Recently, by filing a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States, Julius Jones, a black man condemned
Read moreKeith Tharpe and the Death Penalty’s Racist Roots
Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot,
Read moreAlabama executions: Strictly a Christian affair
Over 60 years ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that “[t]he basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is
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