Freedom House puts out an index rating countries as free or partly free or not free based on whether their citizens have certain rights most Americans consider fundamental.
If Freedom House expanded the list to colleges, where would Harvard rank?
Andrew J. McDonald, a justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, joined in a 4-3 majority in 2015 to rule that the death penalty violates the state constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
It was a surprising ruling, because it went beyond what the defendant in the case (State v. Santiago) was seeking: He wanted the court to declare that since the state legislature had abolished the death penalty in 2012 for cases after that date, then his own death penalty sentence should be vacated, as well, even though the murder he was convicted for took place in 2000 before the bill was passed.
