Neil Gorsuch and the execution that was an “innocent misadventure”
February 10, 2017
The man President Trump has nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court seems disturbingly similar to the justice whose seat he will take.
The man President Trump has nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court seems disturbingly similar to the justice whose seat he will take.
Judicial override, mental illness, and lethal injection were just a few of the issues states were grappling with in the last few weeks in their death penalty debates.
Shakeel Syed helped found a Muslim-Latino Collaborative as a defense against the racism of the new Administration.
“I’m no bleeding heart. I worked in Dade County Homicide for 16 of my 30 years on the job, and saw it all….”
Whatever your view of the current political scene, President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court
The verdict was not a surprise, but it did leave many wondering what would be achieved by executing a clearly disturbed young man.
California’s new lethal injection protocol was rejected by a state regulatory agency that cited several problems with the proposal.
The U.S. Supreme Court sent Florida’s death penalty scheme into turmoil with a ruling last January, and things have just gotten more complicated since.
From Denver, where the new district attorney says she will not pursue the death penalty in murder cases, to North Carolina, which just marked 10 years since its last execution, the death penalty and its viability is being debated throughout the country.