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Supreme Court decides on lethal injection
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June 29, 2015
The Supreme Court's big death-penalty fight just exploded into the open
A bench fight between Breyer and Scalia shows that justices are fed up with tinkering around the edges and want to take on the death penalty itself
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June 29, 2015
Justice Scalia: The death penalty deters crime. Experts: No, it doesn’t.
Most criminologists disagree with Scalia.
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June 29, 2015
Scalia says Breyer and Ginsburg's death penalty dissent "rejects the Enlightenment"
Some characteristic strong rhetoric from Justice Scalia.
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June 29, 2015
How a shortage of lethal injection drugs put the death penalty before the Supreme Court
A drug shortage led states to try new, experimental methods.
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June 29, 2015
4 percent of death sentences go to innocent people
A new study finds that if everyone sentenced to death got their cases scrutinized for the next twenty years, at least 4 percent of them would likely get exonerated. And false-conviction rates are probably higher for other cases.
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June 29, 2015
Sotomayor: OK’s lethal injections are “chemical equivalent of being burned at the stake"
But the Supreme Court is letting the state go ahead with them anyway.
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June 29, 2015
Read: SCOTUS decision sides with Oklahoma on using experimental lethal injection drugs
SCOTUS rules 5-4 upholding use of controversial lethal injection drug
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June 29, 2015
Supreme Court upholds use of controversial lethal injection drug
Oklahoma and other states are using untested drugs to kill prisoners. Is that a necessary response to a drug shortage, or cruel and unusual punishment?
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May 28, 2015
The death penalty in America: expensive, racially skewed, and still popular
How it works — and doesn't work — explained in charts.
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April 29, 2014
Oklahoma's hardly the first to botch an execution
The execution gone horribly awry in Oklahoma isn't even close to the first.