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Supreme Court Rejects Inmate’s Plea for Firing Squad The inmate, Ernest Johnson, argued that Missouri’s planned use of pentobarbital to execute him would cause excruciating pain. The Supreme Court gave no reason for refusing to hear the case.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times May 24, 2021, 1:32 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — Over the dissents of its three liberal members, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a death row inmate in Missouri who said the way the state planned to execute him would cause him excruciating pain. The inmate, Ernest Johnson, had asked t...

Cracks in a Legal Shield for Officers’ Misconduct The Supreme Court has hinted that it is ready to trim the doctrine of qualified immunity, which makes it difficult to sue government officials for violence and cruelty. Two recent rulings suggest the Supreme Court may be ready to curtail the doctrine of qualified immunity, but one was terse and the other cryptic, leaving room for debate.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Published March 8, 2021Updated March 25, 2021 WASHINGTON — For years, the Supreme Court has been hostile to lawsuits from victims of police violence, prisoners...

San Francisco's rowdy and racist chicken-themed restaurant: Topsy's Roost FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A postcard from the 1920s showing San Francisco's chicken-themed restaurant Topsy's Roost.Public DomainShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Topsy's Roost on the boardwalk of Playland at the Beach promised cheap eats and no cover charge during the Great Depression.OpenSFHistory / wnp66.445.jpgShow MoreShow Less 3of3 For a time, the most exciting night out you could have in San Francisco was at a human chicken coop. To get there, you needed to drive to the edge of the city, where the Pacific Ocean lapped agai...

The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty By Maurice Chammah In 1972, the Supreme Court meted out a death sentence. The condemned was the death penalty itself. The American apparatus of state killing was effectively shut down, the punishment judged too final given the flawed human beings who gave it. But this death wasn’t final. A bipartisan band of bloodlust resurrected the death penalty, needling the annual count back up to a peak of 98 executions in 1999. From there, the death penalty began again to die. This time, it wasn’t a high edict that doomed it, but the unsung, helter-skelte...