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Over the past few days, thousands of pages of private correspondence have made their way out of John Podesta's email box and onto the open internet. WikiLeaks's deluge of email exchanges between Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, her aides, family members, and favorite donors have provided fodder for countless news stories.
This election cycle has been a cruel one. The presidential candidates share one thing, at least: the instinct to attack their opponent in the most cutting way possible.
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Bharat Malkani now available via SSRN. Here is the abstract: The US Supreme Court has repeatedly invoked the idea of dignity in its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, particularly in cases involving capital punishment.
With time growing short and the abolition of capital punishment guaranteed if Hillary Clinton is elected to place justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, death penalty supporters are wasting their energy and resources. Despite the fact that substantial majorities of the American people have consistently favored capital punishment, it is on the verge of complete abolition .
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Supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took a week's worth of attack lines to the Sunday shows, arguing about the propriety of the Clinton Foundation and Trump's appeals to African-American voters. Defending Trump's claim that Clinton is a "bigot," GOP chairman Reince Priebus argued that Clinton at the least has taken the black vote for granted.
More Ohio voters ought to pay attention to the state Supreme Court as these young Ohioans are doing during a tour of the Ohio Supreme Court building. Here's what's supposed to be the capstone argument of Donald Trump's ever-shrinking cult: "It's the Supreme Court, stupid."
Texas lawyer Jerry Guerinot said he no longer represents people accused of capital murder after four decades of posting a perfect record. Some opponents of capital punishment label him the worst lawyer in the U.S. Guerinot shrugs off the criticism, which he says comes from taking notorious cases.
A charter bus veered off a central California freeway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole head-on, killing five people and sending at least five others to hospitals, authorities said. Leonardo Sanchez was sleeping peacefully on a bus carrying him to Oregon to pick blueberries when he was suddenly thrown face first into the back of the seat in front of him, awakening him to a horrific scene of chaos and... Prosecutors have filed three charges of aggravated first-degree murder against a 19-year-old accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend and two young men to death at a party in suburban Seattle over the weekend.
An Oklahoma City federal judge has rejected the argument by a man convicted in the killing of a 10-year-old Purcell girl that he is ineligible for the death penalty because of severe mental illness. The Oklahoman reports that 36-year-old Kevin Underwood was given the death penalty in the 2006 death of Jamie Bolin .
The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States amid another surge of migrants caught crossing the border illegally. The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States amid another surge of migrants caught crossing the border illegally.
Two attackers seized hostages in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen on ... . In this grab made from video, police officers close off a road during a hostage situation in Normandy, France, Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
A family member of a victim of Leslie Van Houten, a Manson follower, reacted to the possibility that she could be paroled. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Georgia has executed a man who beat a friend to death during an argument after a night of partying more than three decades ago. John Wayne Conner was executed at 12:29 a.m. Friday at the state prison in Jackson by an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
Georgia plans to execute a man convicted of killing a friend after a night of partying more than three decades ago. Georgia on Friday executed its sixth inmate this year, the most in any calendar year in the state since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago.
President Duterte holds a piece of paper containing the names of the five police generals allegedly involved in protecting drug syndicates in the country. The President made the shocking revelation in his speech during the 69th Philippine Air Force anniversary at the Haribon Hangar in Air Force City, Clark Air Base, Pampanga.
When police officers fatally shot Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, a powerful tool conveyed the brutal reality of their deaths to millions of people and helped fuel public outrage:... When police officers fatally shot Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, a powerful tool conveyed the brutal reality of their deaths to millions of people and helped fuel public outrage: cellphone... A black Army veteran upset about fatal police shootings of black men and bent on exterminating white police officers killed five lawmen in a sniper attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation already divided... The black Army veteran who killed five Dallas police officers donned a protective vest and used a military-style semi-automatic rifle in the sniper slayings, officials said, an attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation... An execution scheduled ... (more)
The latest draft of the party's platform, released Friday, says the death penalty "has proven to be a cruel and unusual form of punishment" that "has no place in the United States of America." The inclusion of the provision represents a victory of sorts for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders - a longtime opponent of the punishment who has said he is remaining in the presidential race in order to fight for progressive causes.