If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.