Oklahoma's torture-executions have led the Supreme Court to suspend execution in that state, and created an opportunity to press to end them.

For the most part I am not especially concerned about how executions are done. The point is that they should not be done.

The former head of CIA and NSA said, "We kill people based on metadata". The US Congress is taking a step to reduce collection of metadata, but it is a suspiciously small step.

Texas is considering a bill to permit teachers to shoot and kill people (such as students) to protect school property.

Don't let the Charlie Hebdo attack be an excuse to expand surveillance.

Canada plans to criminalize "promoting terrorism". Civil liberties defenders oppose this because it would amount to criminalizing mere opinion, as has recently been the case in France.