A young poet, Who May, pens one disturbing poem after another until he creates a poem that can kill, which sparks a "magic poem plague" when copies are mailed t

An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance

From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--an

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Agains

Before constitutional regulation -- The Supreme Court steps in -- The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution -- Between the Supreme Court and the