Death Penalty

Ernie Chambers cites case of Alvogen suing Nevada as grounds for lawsuit to stop use of its products in lethal injection.

Know this one?

How can anyone be killed without it being "cruel and unusual"?

It's impossible to sympathize with Dylann Roof, but consider the fallout of this sentence.

Court deadlocked, Tie goes to the needle.

When you can't even tell the truth to yourself about what you are doing, it's a pretty good indication that what you are doing is wrong.

Solos and small-firm lawyers already have it bad enough.

A life-or-death issue. What standard should be used, and based on what criteria?

When future Supreme Court justices take a stand against wrongful convictions.

Has Obama nominated three "pro-death" justices?

Which state court of last resort will be the first to follow the Connecticut Supreme Court’s lead on the death penalty?

When it comes to eligibility for the death penalty, states still disagree on what qualifies as making a person intellectually disabled.

Here's another constitutional argument against the death penalty.

Pulling this beat has to be depressing as hell -- particularly right before the holidays.

Judge Kozinski poses the question on 60 Minutes: Should we bring back the guillotine or the firing squad?

Meet the terrible lawyers that take on the cases with the highest stakes .

One defense lawyer has an extraordinary record -- just not the kind that anyone with a capital conviction or charge against them wants to see.

Columnist Sam Wright explores Connecticut's landmark decision that ends the death penalty in the state.

How could the jury believe that a person so young could be so unredeemable? That the only satisfactory conclusion to his heinous acts would be his own death?

Dzhokar Tsarnaev deserves to die. That doesn't mean we should kill him.