"Railroad killer" Angel Maturino Resendiz was convicted in 2000 of the rape and murder of one person, but is believed to have killed 14 Americans as he travelled around this country hobo-style on trai...

Eugene Volokh points to this moronic op-ed on the subject of the execution of Tookie Williams, in which Renford Reese, [send him mail] a liberal professor from CSU-Pomona says this: The fact that I was...

Jay Nordlinger prints an email he got in his column on National Review Online Jay, Why is it that everything has to be racialized? Here's the headline over an Associated Press story: "Texas Black Woman...

The Supreme Court recently "dismissed as improvidently granted" a petition for certiorari in the case of Medellin vs. Dretke. The case will now be retried in Texas state court. Medellin is important...

In May 2003, 74 illegal aliens were packed into a truck headed for America. Locked in the back without air, nineteen of them died. 14 people have been indicted on various charges including: Aiding and...

Celebrity hairdos and hemlines may change, but there's one fashion accessory that never goes out of style at the Oscars: Death Row inmates. From Dead Man Walking to The Green Mile to this year's Acad...

The Supreme Court is on a rip against the death penalty, ruling last week that mentally retarded convicts can't be executed and this week that only juries, not judges, can decide the facts that justify...

Less than a week before Timothy McVeigh entertained the nation with a dose of the hot juice, a beaming Attorney General John Ashcroft popped up before the House Judiciary Committee to announce that a n...

The social event of the year seems to be the impending execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on May 16. Since McVeigh has admitted his guilt and abandoned his claims to further legal appeal...