Meredith Osborne   For generations, National Lawyers Guild members have fought against the glaringly racist use of the death penalty as a form of state-sanctioned murder. The Guild has long recognized that capital punishment is nothing more than a form of state sanctioned murder. Yet, despite the myriad moral, constitutional, financial, and practical argu­ments against […]

Jason G. Tiplitz, J.D. Candidate, 2019 Texas A&M University School of Law   Capital punishment is predicated in part on the notion that collective, utili­tarian justice, as embodied in the state, should supersede individual rights. The tension between the greater good and our instinctive understanding of the rights of the individual is a problem for […]

Ian D. Eppler: J.D. Candidate, Class of 2019, Harvard Law School. Thanks are due to Professor Carol Steiker for her guidance and insight in drafting this article, and to the staff of the National Lawyers Guild Review for their thoughtful comments. All errors are my own.   Introduction The writ of habeas corpus—the so-called “great […]

Neil M. Fox is a criminal defense lawyer in Seattle, Washington. Along with Lila J. Silverstein, he was counsel of record for the appellant in State v. Gregory, 427 P.3d 621 (Wash. 2018).   Introduction My paternal grandfather came from what is now Belarus, a small country that used to be in the former USSR, […]