Efforts to ban capital punishment are growing. But keep this in mind: the last time the Supreme Court tried to end the death penalty, we got more executions.
David Dagan
David Dagan is a freelance journalist and a PhD student in political science at Johns Hopkins University. Find him on Twitter: @DavidDagan
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The Tea Party Gets Something Right
The conservative case for sentencing reform grows even stronger.
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Trayvon Martin’s Killing Was Exceptional Only In That We Noticed
As debate rages over the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, it is important to remember that the initial outcry was not based on the sense that George Zimmerman was obviously guilty. Rather, it was based on the sense that authorities confronted with the body of another young, black man had not even taken seriously […]
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Do Conservatives Now Believe in Lawyers for the Poor?
It’s safe to say that celebrating government programs that serve the poor has not been a priority at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference. But with the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision establishing the right to counsel approaching Monday, the talk in one small corner of CPAC suggested that conservatives could be strong […]
