The Book of the Century About the Death Penalty
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Andrew Cohen is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and legal analyst for 60 Minutes. He is also chief analyst and legal editor for CBS Radio News and has won a Murrow Award as one of the nation's leading legal analysts and commentators. More
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Same-sex marriage supporters are celebrating today's 9th Circuit ruling. But the real question is whether the opinion will persuade the Supreme Court.… More »
How a sustainability initiative became fodder for right-wing conspiracy theories.… More »
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The hypocrisy of a group of Republicans who are supporting the lawsuit against Obama's recess appointments… More »
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Instead of searching for the truth, the state is going to absurd lengths to defend a dubious death sentence.… More »
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The dark series, with its brilliant cinematography, is a paean to people who believe that things happen for a reason.… More »
The man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan wants more unsupervised release -- but the feds say he gazed at the wrong bookshelf at Barnes & Noble.… More »
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The courts refuse to protect the feds for harboring James "Whitey" Bulger while he and his Winter Hill gang killed.… More »
Whatever else it does, the beloved coach's death deprives the rest of us of his sworn testimony about the Penn State scandal.… More »
After the legendary coach offered his apology on Saturday, Penn State struck back.… More »
The two old friends on the High Court disagree about how far justice should reach when a client is abandoned by his lawyers before appeal.… More »
In a courtroom where judges and officers mix, fact merges with Hollywood fiction.… More »
A collection of death-penalty reports and analysis from legal analyst Andrew Cohen… More »
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