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We Can’t Execute Them
But should we lock up teens for life? This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case testing whether the Eighth Amendmentâs ban on cruel and...
Newsweek, 11/16/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
What Makes a Bad Parent?
Why reality TV is not child abuse. Mere hours after police said that the story of 6-year-old Falcon Heene drifting away in a silver balloon was a...
Newsweek, 11/02/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
Heart of Darkness?
Inside the Supremesâ new term. Next week the Supreme Court will begin its 2009 term, secure in the knowledge that it remains completely...
Newsweek, 10/05/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
Innocent Until Executed
We have no right to exoneration. For years, death-penalty opponents and supporters have been working their way toward a mo-ment in which each side...
Newsweek, 09/14/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
The Sotomayor Test
Will she limit Obamaâs next pick? Throughout the weeks leading up to the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, one often heard that...
Newsweek, 08/03/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
Sotomayor in 60 Seconds
A guide to the confirmation hearings. Judge Sonia Sotomayor faces off against the Senate Judiciary Committee this week in a bid to become the 111th...
Newsweek, 07/20/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
Race De-Baiting
POKE THROUGH ANY LAWYER'S BOOKSHELF AND you'll find the beige, dog-eared copy of To Kill A Mockingbird that forever altered the course of their...
American Prospect, The, 07/01/09 by Lithwick, Dahlia · More from publication -
Our Real Prison Problem
Why are we so worried about Gitmo? The public-opinion two-step on the wisdom of closing the prison camp at Guantánamo is fascinating, and not...
Newsweek, 06/15/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
A Supreme Choice
Why Obama could go bold. To the extent that Supreme Court reporters have any social utility at all, theyâre awfully useful when high-court...
Newsweek, 06/01/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication -
Have We Softened Up on Torture?
In April 2004, the world learned that American soldiers in Iraq had abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison. Images first revealed on CBS and in...
Newsweek, 05/04/09 by Dahlia Lithwick · More from publication
