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.

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

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.

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

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.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.