It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.