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Austin Sarat, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Wray should have stayed and tried to uphold the rule of law for as long as he could. That is exactly what he is asking his subordinates at the FBI to...
It is a serious mistake for Arizona to restart the machinery of death and for other states to cling to capital punishment.
As the 2024 election results showed, identity is loose-fitting, rather than a surefire predictor of political attitudes and behavior.
This Thanksgiving, governors should use their sovereign power to put down the executioner’s axe.
What just happened in West Virginia is unprecedented.
Kamala Harris’s version of freedom was a caring kind of freedom, but it was also a technocratic, policy wonk kind of freedom — and many Americans...
Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in the United States.
Last week, President Biden seemed to call Trump supporters "garbage," prompting a wave of faux outrage and callbacks to Hillary Clinton's 2016 "basket...
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
It is time for the United States to do what almost every other democratic nation has already done: abolish the felony murder rule.
However the Richard Glossip case comes out, Wednesday’s proceeding offered a chilling reminder that Justices Thomas and Alito want to undo our...
When Americans go to the polls in November, they will have an opportunity to choose whether they want a president who will put aside politics when...
JD Vance’s debate performance was an elaborate ruse, whether he was talking about himself or his running mate, Donald Trump.
What happened to Marcellus Williams fits a sad pattern in this country's use of capital punishment.
If Trump loses, Americans need to buckle up and ready themselves for a post-election period every bit as difficult and damaging to democracy as what...
Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr and other officials are slated to testify about Biden administration policies Thursday morning before...
That politicians lie is hardly news — do the ends justify the means?
Donald Trump has tied the legal system in knots, using his status as a former president and a current presidential candidate as a tool to delay and...
Neither what Trump said about IVF nor about Florida’s six-week abortion ban this week should have shocked anyone.
An innocent person entered a plea just to avoid a death sentence he doesn’t deserve; now, he is stopped from proving his innocence by the...
Michelle Obama told the DNC that hope is making a comeback” — Democrats hope she's right.
The fact that there are so many roadblocks erected to prevent success in freeing falsely convicted inmates from death row, and that it takes so long...
Democrats and everyone who cares about the survival of American democracy need to prepare now for what will unfold after the votes have been counted...
Former President Trump used an interview with internet personality Adin Ross to claim that Caracas, Venezuela, is a very safe place to live, despite...
Utah officials denied clemency to Taberon Honie, who is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 8 for the stabbing death of his girlfriend's mother in 1998,...
Before he leaves office, President Biden should ramp up his use of the pardon power to empty the federal death row.
the state of Utah, long known for its embrace of the firing squad, is planning to use a previously untried drug combination in a lethal injection of...
ignoring the Republican platform would be a mistake.
While people who commit serious crimes deserve severe punishment, no one should tolerate a system that takes shortcuts and ends up punishing people...
Steve Bannon's Second American Revolution combines an embrace of Christian nationalism with a program to put “American Citizens First.” What is...
President Biden has made preserving and protecting American democracy a central issue in his campaign for re-election. But his promise to preserve a...
It is long past time for Texas to get out of the business of predicting future dangerousness in making life and death decisions.
In the Washington of today, even calls for ethics and transparency in our governmental institutions trigger partisan reflexes.
President Biden is trying to show cynical, irreverent Americans that their fates and ways of life are tied to the survival of democracy and the values...
Twelve ordinary citizens were called on to judge the former president under the glare of a national and international spotlight.
If this country is going to continue carrying out lethal injection executions, they should be subject to exacting scrutiny.
Even as student protesters take down their encampments and go home for the summer, colleges and universities are left with much work to do if they are...
Today, refusing to say whether they will accept the 2024 election results has become a staple among Republican leaders seeking favor with Trump and...
Over the next several months, voters need to make clear that they do not want a repeat of 2020. And in November, Americans need to go to the polls and...
Thursday was not a good day for American democracy.
Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America’s civic infrastructure, are under attack.
The Arizona Supreme Court decision was not just a political bombshell — it was legally bizarre.
From the time he was sentenced, Brian Dorsey’s story was a powerful antidote to despair. It calls on all of us not to give up hope, even for those...
The court’s decision in the Pulsifer case is more than an English teacher’s nightmare. It guts a key section of the First Step Act.
Recent legal developments in Trump’s various cases should have made it clear that no one — no judge, no jury — is coming to save us or to rescue...
If Biden is going to win their votes, he will have to move the fear of crime to the top of his agenda.
How will Thomas respond to these urgent appeals?
If Joe Biden wants to win, he will need to take on the crime issue.
If Trump is re-elected, he will not rest with Dobbs. He will go after reproductive rights everywhere.
What happens in a state that authorizes the death penalty but has no legal means of carrying it out?