How Death-Qualified Juries Tilt Justice’s Scales
Alan Rogers
Florida’s Death Penalty and the Supreme Court’s Make Up Call
The Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Death Penalty Won’t Do Much to Change Capital Punishment
“A Jury of her Peers” and the Dilemma of Difference
Susan Glaspell won her place in American history by demonstrating that sexual differences matter, that women could not protect themselves from abusive husbands unless they could sit on juries.
Sara Ehrmann and the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
In 1928, a few months after the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti, Sara Rosenfeld Ehrmann, a thirty-three year old Brookline housewife and mother of two young children, accepted leadership of the Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty (MCADP).
“A Man May Quibble for His Life:” William Hardy and the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
In 1806, William Hardy, a poor African American laborer living in Boston, was indicted for the murder of an infant.
The Grand Jury Must Be More Democratic
The failure of grand juries in St. Louis County, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, to indict white police officers for the deaths of African-Americans Michael Brown and Eric Garner has prompted calls to abolish the grand jury.
“The Whole Enchilada:” Religious Exemptions for Children’s Medical Care
In March, 1967, thirty-one-year-old Dorothy Sheridan, a single mother and a Christian Scientist, prayed that her five-year-old daughter Lisa would understand that God had created a sinless, illness-free spiritual world and thus be freed from the illusory grip of pneumonia.
Mary Baker Eddy and the American Dream
Mary Baker Eddy was born in 1821 in Bow, New Hampshire, a small hardscrabble farming community. Fifty-four years later, she launched the wildly popular religion Christian Science when she published Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures.