Guest Posts

The Poetry of Wiley Bridgeman

Wiley Bridgeman was exonerated after spending 39 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. We are thrilled to share some of his poetry.

Tsarnaev verdict shows three fatal flaws of death penalty

The death penalty is incompatible with human dignity

In its ruling in Hall v. Florida in May, the court — with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the helm — reminded us that the core value animating the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishments clause is the preservation of human dignity against the affront of unnecessarily harsh punishment.