Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the ...

In a striking dissent, the Supreme Court’s Democratic appointees ask readers to imagine themselves suffocating.

The voice of the court's liberal minority had a fiery view on a pro-Trump ICE ruling, saying she would not stand idly by ...

An Alabama man convicted of murder was executed using a controversial nitrogen gas method. Anthony Todd Boyd was executed by ...

The justice talked about the law's gray areas and her goals dissenting against the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court justice, part of the court’s three-member liberal bloc, urged university students in attendance not to ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...

The pews of Ira Allen Chapel were packed with UVM community members eager to hear Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions.  Sotomayor — joined by Justices ...

In doing so, Sotomayor contended, it ignored both its own precedents and the clear violation of Crawford’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. As she put it, “The right to direct the goals of one’s ...