As Doug Berman notes, the Federal Sentencing Reporter issue dedicated to sex offender issues is out. You can find the details here. I was honored to be one of the contributors and as I noted I have also made my......

There continues to be much life in the reporting of the possibility of costs killing the death penalty. The AP has this new piece, headlined "In hard times, executions become question of cost," which starts this way: After decades of......

The Maryland Senate has spoken: there will be no repeal of the death penalty this year. But we learned a few valuable things from the process. First, Senator Rich Madaleno (D-18) issued this description of today’s events: Earlier today, we finished the debate on the death penalty repeal, probably ...

I am having a hard time keeping up with all the death penalty reform legislation making its way through statehouses these days, but here are headlines that seem to capture some of the latest highlights: From the Baltimore Sun here,......

... we're keeping the death penalty but making it harder to apply.Hassan Giordano: Dems dropped the ball...

  Is former New York City Mayor Ed Koch gay? Does anyone even care at this point? Scariest hate crime suspect of all-time? This guy: "So I killed somebody - that makes me a bad guy?" We're against the death penalty, so let's hope he gets brutally beaten in prison every day for...

The Baltimore Sun and Maryland Moment summarize the twists and turns in today's death penalty debate. But the most interesting comments come from - surprisingly - one of the state's most liberal Senators and the state's most prominent conservative blogger. At 2:30 PM today, Senator Rich Madaleno (D-...

Cash-strapped states are eyeing what some may think is an unlikely target for their budget axes: the death penalty. In what is likely to become a heated debate over policy, CNN is reporting that some states have introduced legislation to "take the death penalty off the books over financial concerns....

Regular readers should not be surprised that one echo effect of hard economic times is that opponents of capital punishment are finding it easier to argue against the death penalty because of the extraordinary expense of properly administering the punishment......

"Anti-death penalty lobby hopes for discreet Obama support," is the AFP report via Google News. In a country that has almost two-thirds support for the death penalty, US President Barack Obama will likely shy away from addressing the issue head on but could signal a discreet change in atti...