Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs

Warning: the below is very imprecise. I'm going to be talking about "Europe" as if it's a single entity. It's clearly ...

Rick Perry Rick Perry is presently the governor of Texas. Much of the below is about his record in that position, as well as statements h...

The most critical means of reducing wrongful convictions is to have better juries. When you consider being summoned for jury duty , what is ...

The Bill of Rights guarantees you a right to a lawyer when you're on trial, even if you can't afford one . Unfortunately, the law...

I found myself listening to cable news today. I appreciated the music, and people telling what they loved about America. I appreciated that ...

Why would someone plead guilty if they're not? Plea bargaining. In a plea bargain, the state tells an accused person "You are goi...

The details of implementation are the difference between the death penalty working financially and not. So what if we imagined different d...

The way our system is set up, electoral votes in most states are winner-take-all. That essentially disenfranchises most voters in the gener...

We've looked at four main arguments for the death penalty. Given the wrongful conviction rate is, and will remain, non-zero, argument fr...

So from previous posts, argument from cost is the only possibly convincing argument to retain the death penalty. But there were simplifyin...