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MSNBC's “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski violated some of the cardinal rules of journalism. Journalists, so those maxims...
Tweet Share Share Comment Two Texas death cases made headlines last week; both involved a parent who was convicted of killing...
The 2024 election has installed a regime of one-party government in Washington. Come Jan. 20, the presidency, the Senate, and the House of...
Tweet Share Share Comment There are 40 men on federal death row who have been convicted of capital offenses by the federal...
Tweet Share Share Comment Robert Roberson, who was wrongfully convicted of a capital crime, was due to die on Thursday at 6 p.m....
Appearing on CNN on Monday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin found himself in an uncomfortable situation. Host Jake Tapper asked the governor whether...
There are substantial differences between the two candidates, though each of their records contains some interesting twists and turns.
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the national political scene in 2015, he has displayed a perplexing and troubling attitude toward freedom of...
Donald Trump made a hero’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the July 13 attempt on his life. In what has been widely lauded as an...
Jack Smith’s latest filing in the election interference case against Donald Trump contains explosive reminders and bombshell revelations about the...
Tweet Share Share Comment This week is shaping up to be a very bad one for death penalty opponents in the United States. If all...
Since he was appointed Supreme Court chief justice by George W. Bush in 2005, John Roberts has been something of an enigma. He initially tried to...
Tweet Share Share Comment The state of Idaho tried to kill Thomas Creech once. It failed. It now wants a second chance. Last...
This is the second of a two-part series on tonight's first, and so far only scheduled, debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former...
What a difference four years make. In 2020 the Democratic Party took an aggressively anti-death penalty position . Not so this year. In...
Tweet Share Share Comment Carrying out an execution is always a complicated business that takes a horrible toll on anyone who is...
Tweet Share Share Comment Glynn Simmons holds a dubious and painful distinction. He served a longer amount of time in prison...
The phrase “no one is above the law” has a long and storied history. But in the age of Trump it is coming to seem like nothing more than a...
Tweet Share Share Comment All across this country, prisoners who have been falsely convicted dream about being exonerated. That...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday, the United States government announced that it had reached a plea deal with Khalid...
On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled a package of reforms targeting the United States Supreme Court. That package included a proposal to...
Tweet Share Share Comment When President Joe Biden leaves the White House, he will leave behind a mixed legacy on the issue of...
Fans of the Broadway musical Hamilton will remember a moment late in the show when, after a series of songs about Hamilton’s personal life, one of...
Who said there are no second acts on the American public stage?. The good fortune of Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin is a powerful...
Another day, another miraculous escape from serious jeopardy for Donald Trump. Like a Secret Service agent shielding their protectee from danger,...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of Opinionpalooza , Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court...
Wherever Richard Nixon is today, I have no doubt he is smiling up at the Supreme Court. Just short of fifty years after he resigned from the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Connecticut abolished capital punishment in April 2012. That made Connecticut the 17th state in this...
Tweet Share Share Comment The power to grant pardons and reprieves has long been a controversial one. It lodges in chief...
Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with congressional Republicans. It was his first trip there since the January 6...
Tweet Share Share Comment At the end of last month, the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court went out of its...
Tweet Share Share Comment The president’s ability to grant pardons and commute sentences is a dramatic but generally quiet...
Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law...
Tweet Share Share Comment A blueprint for a second Trump term issued by conservative groups contains many alarming wake-up calls for progressives....
On Friday, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee rejected a motion to disqualify Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting Donald...
On Tuesday, Justice Samuel Alito gave another startling indication of how troubled he is by recent changes in American society and law. In an unusual...
Good things, as the English proverb reminds us, come to those who wait. That proverb aptly describes Tuesday’s 3-0 decision the United...
Tweet Share Share Comment Alabama plans to experiment with nitrogen hypoxia, a previously untried method of execution, when it...
In a Friday afternoon announcement, the Biden Administration crossed the Rubicon when it said that it would seek the death penalty in the case of ...
In the last gasps of his presidential campaign, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to brag that he made his state the place where...
In yet another almost unimaginable moment in America’s troubled recent history, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former Pres....