We’re worried these new regulations might be a sign they are getting ready for an execution.

In both of those categories there’s a standard. Either you are 18 years old when you commit a crime or you’re not. Either your IQ is below 70 or it’s not, … Mental illness is...

This has the potential to hold up some executions. It will not hold up all executions.

He’s tested below 70 [on an IQ test], believes in the Easter bunny and plays with crayons,

My worry is this: It’s the fox guarding the henhouse. Objective, impartial parties should be making these decisions. Not a pro-death penalty U.S. attorney general.

They don’t have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

He is seen as the governor who shined public light on the problem with the state’s death penalty system. No one had done that before in the comprehensive manner in which he did it.

It’s not earth-shattering news. Lethal injection is not on trial today. Down the road, it may be.

Four Brothers,

We’re in the beginning stages of the investigation. We’re looking for a motive or if this is even a homicide. We’re looking at it as a suspicious situation because of the way the body was...

It’s a problem for our allies when we continue to execute people. It’s going to be a problem for our allies when a U.S.-supported government in Iraq executes people.

That’s a pretty low bar. We need a higher bar.

It’s no longer the third rail of American politics.

There were complex and complicating factors. … It was a difficult case. But any time we get to have a conversation with the American public about the fairness of the death penalty, it helps us.