‘Flawed, ill fated, unreliable’: Bryan Stevenson on the ‘barbaric’ capital punishment system
President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...
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Davich: Indiana State Prison execution injects doubt over death penalty necessity
In 1994, 80% of Americans favored the death penalty. A similar poll this month showed that only 53% of respondents favor the death penalty for murder. But if a murderer killed any of my loved ones, I ...
Trump’s threat to end transgender status betrays the promise of America | Opinion
Observer readers comment on Donald Trump’s transgender policy, Joe Biden’s commutations of death row inmates, UNC women’s ...
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A year of departures and arrivals: The stories that left a mark on Buffalo Niagara in 2024
The year 2024 was also a year of deliberations and decisions – with the most high-profile cases occurring in U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo’s eighth-floor courtroom in t ...
Oklahoma Watch: Death row dwindles after executions with capital cases growing rare
David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...
The death penalty and the dearth of debate
President Joe Biden's statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life in prison without possibility of parole was as matter of fact as ...