Outside the Beltway

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

Politics and justice are in tension.

Kate Brown has left a parting gift for the state’s worst criminals.

Another example of the arbitrariness of the death penaly

The first modern stand-up comedian has died at 94.

A thorough review of the fairness of the process will be conducted.

A rather odd non-ruling during the non-session from America’s highest court.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

Last week, New Hampshire became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Thus becoming the 21st state to do so.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

The replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh is already having a significant impact.

Another landmark decision from the Washington State Supreme Court.

Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. The latest in a string of victories for opponents of capital punishment.

In what amounts to a significant, albeit not surprising, change in Catholic doctrine, Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is unacceptable in all circumstances.

If we’re going to have a death penalty, he was its poster boy.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

My former home state executes more people per capita than any other state in the union. It has not gotten much better at it.

The President would like to copy Singapore’s zero-tolerance policy. The US Constitution stands in his way.

Charles Manson, who led a cult-like “family” to a series of murders in 1969 and subsequently spent more than 40 years in prison, has died at the age of 83.

Now, the road to trial will move forward.

The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.

Pfizer has become the latest drug maker from barring its products from being used in executions.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

The marriage equality issue is resolved, but that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court won’t have a lot of high profile cases on its docket over the next eight months.

Connecticut eliminated the death penalty several years ago, and now the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that the men remaining on death row cannot be executed.

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the death penalty is administered, dealing a serious blow to opponents of the death penalty.

Despite a veto from the state’s Governor, today Nebraska became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Hopefully, others will follow.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

The gang at The Week are surprised that “Only jurors who were open to the death penalty were chosen for the Tsarnaev trial.”

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

Final justice, but far from the end of the road.

The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing argue that his killer should be spared from the death penalty.

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

The most novel argument yet against capital punishment.

A turning point in public opinion?

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

Tennessee makes an unfortunate return to the past.

Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.

How can anyone possibly support the death penalty?

Conor Friedersdorf contends “The U.S. Already Had a Conversation About Guns—and the Pro Side Won.”

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

There is no evidence that the Capital Punishment works.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

Another death row inmate. Another case of prosecutorial misconduct from the office of Harry Connick, Sr.