SCOTUS majority declines to give ‘barest form of mercy’ as National Guard ruling awaits

Legal Newsletter highlights Trump’s bid to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, a striking death penalty dissent and more.

Liberal Supreme Court justices decry nitrogen hypoxia executions: ‘Excruciating suffocation’

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use ...

Alabama Executes Man Convicted of Burning Victim Alive Using Controversial Nitrogen Gas Method

An Alabama man convicted of murder was executed using a controversial nitrogen gas method. Anthony Todd Boyd was executed by ...
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Sotomayor Dissents as Court Declines Death Row Case

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, has dissented in the ...
Radar Online

Alabama Death Row Inmate Says Three Chilling Final Words Before 20-Minute Execution Using Nitrogen Gas for 1993 Murder

Death row inmate Todd Boyd maintained his innocence before being put to death via nitrogen gas for a grisly 1993 murder.

'The Constitution would grant him that grace': Sotomayor harshly rebukes SCOTUS colleagues for refusing to let man die by firing squad

"This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment," the ...
Princeton University

Prospect House spaces dedicated for ‘exemplary individuals’ who helped to shape the University and the world

The renovated rooms, dining spaces, library and terrace in Prospect House have been named in honor of 12 people with ...

How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting

A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a ...