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But last week, in a far-reaching decision likely to hasten the execution of many death row inmates, the high court narrowed the ability of state prisoners to challenge the constitutionality of their convictions or sentences. The Justices ruled that federal courts are no longer obligated to grant a hearing...
Roger Keith Coleman's case is filled with the kinds of errors that make federal review so vital. There is an allegation that Coleman's trial may have been tainted by a biased juror; that his lawyers made some major blunders; that another man may have committed the crime. But...
IF DEAD PRESIDENTS COULD SMILE IN THEIR GRAVES, James Madison would be beaming. Nearly 203 years after the fourth President proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise, a requisite 38 states have agreed that there is "a seeming indecorum," as Madison contended, in...
In the 100 or so other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into...
Socrates did not say the untelevised life is not worth living. He said the unexamined life. The unexamined death is a waste too. Socrates spent the hours before his execution by hemlock in 399 B.C. discussing the immortality of the soul. Reflection is not television's strong suit. The medium...