Death Penalty

Policy

SCOTUS Clears Way for Texas Execution Today

Defense on basis of man's low IQ rejected.

Reason Staff | 8.7.2012 6:37 PM

Politics

Death Row Inmate Wins Right to Be Executed

He wants to die, rejecting clemency by Oregon's governor

Reason Staff | 8.7.2012 8:32 AM

Politics

Texas to Execute "Mentally Retarded" Death Row Inmate

Texas uses its own definition of mental retardation and Marvin Wilson doesn't qualify

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 9:30 AM

Policy

Julian Assange's Mother Fears Her Son Could Be Executed in the US

Christine Assange has given evidence to Ecuador's government that she claims shows that her son will be executed if he is extradited.

Reason Staff | 7.31.2012 9:08 AM

Politics

California's Ballot Initiatives: A Top Ten List Too Boring for Letterman or Buzzfeed

Scott Shackford | 7.18.2012 4:52 PM

Politics

Killing California's Costly Death Penalty

Tracy Oppenheimer | 7.11.2012 11:13 AM

Politics

Florida, Illinois Eliminate Commissions that Help Free Innocent, Investigate Police Torture

Scott Shackford | 6.7.2012 2:51 PM

Politics

You Can Sometimes Reduce Drug Use, if You Kill Enough People

Matthew Feeney | 5.30.2012 1:07 PM

Politics

Columbia Professor and Students Reveal Texas Justice Executed the Wrong Man in 1989

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.15.2012 10:00 PM

Politics

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.25.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.24.2012 8:49 PM

Politics

Death Sentence Commuted Under New Anti-Race Bias Law in North Carolina

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2012 5:22 PM

Politics

Iranian Web Designer Faces Imminent Death After Judicial Swindle

Julie Ershadi | 2.18.2012 6:57 PM

Politics

Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence for Software Designer

Julie Ershadi | 2.3.2012 2:07 PM

Politics

Blago Sentenced; Deutsche Bank Bomb; Mumia Lives; New Planet, and More: Reason Evening Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.7.2011 5:28 PM

Policy

Stay of Execution Granted for Hank Skinner Pending a DNA Test

Mike Riggs | 11.7.2011 3:50 PM

Politics

Gaddafi Snuff Footage

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.20.2011 3:30 PM

Politics

Florida Lawmaker on the Death Penalty: "If it were up to me we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it"

Mike Riggs | 10.12.2011 12:23 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: What We Saw at the Troy Davis Protest in Washington, D.C.

Anthony Fisher | 9.22.2011 6:48 PM

Policy

How Gingrich's Love Drives Him to Kill

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 3:53 PM

Policy

Quote of the Day

Radley Balko | 3.28.2011 9:59 AM

Politics

More on the Supreme Court and DNA Testing

Radley Balko | 3.11.2011 2:18 PM

Policy

Texas Declines Compensation for Wrongly Convicted Man Who Spent 18 Years on Death Row

Radley Balko | 2.15.2011 4:25 PM

Policy

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 2.8.2011 1:46 PM

Policy

Reason Writers on the Tube: Radley Balko Talks About the Death Penalty on the Alyona Show

Reason Staff | 12.20.2010 10:09 AM

Policy

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 10.28.2010 11:50 AM

Policy

Texas Officials Continue Coverup of One Possible Wrongful Execution; Fight To Proceed With Another

Radley Balko | 10.15.2010 12:03 PM

Policy

Drug Company Declares National Death Penalty Moratorium?

Armin Rosen | 9.28.2010 3:12 PM

Policy

Federal Judge Rules That a Former Mississippi Prosecutor, Now a Judge, Lied in Court

Radley Balko | 9.14.2010 2:55 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Filling Up Prisons Without Fighting Crime-Mark Kleiman on America's Criminal Justice System

Reason Staff | 8.26.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Is Ohio About to Execute an Innocent Man?

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2010 4:06 PM

Policy

Now Playing at Reason.tv: Robert K. Elder on The Last Words of the Executed

Reason Staff | 7.12.2010 12:20 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Grants Cert to Hank Skinner

Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 11:56 AM

Policy

Hank Skinner Scheduled for Execution Tomorrow

Radley Balko | 3.23.2010 3:22 PM

Policy

Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?

State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.

Radley Balko | 2.22.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

American Law Institute Shifts Course on the Death Penalty

Radley Balko | 1.5.2010 8:03 AM

Policy

John Allen Muhammad And The Death Penalty Challenge

Nick Gillespie | 11.10.2009 9:44 PM

Policy

More Strange Turns in Texas' Possible Execution of an Innocent Man

Radley Balko | 10.16.2009 3:16 PM

Policy

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Sticks His Fingers in His Ears

Radley Balko | 10.2.2009 9:44 AM

Policy

So Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?

Radley Balko | 9.8.2009 10:08 AM

Policy

Experts Denounce Forensic Evidence in Texas Death Penalty Case

Radley Balko | 8.27.2009 9:17 AM

Politics

Dershowitz Corners Scalia on Death Penalty, Catholic Faith

Radley Balko | 8.20.2009 1:51 PM

Policy

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 7.8.2009 11:54 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Social Networking, Socialist Nicaragua, and Psychic News

Jesse Walker | 3.27.2009 9:23 AM