diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/AttributePolicy.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/AttributePolicy.java
index 56668f87..ce174941 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/AttributePolicy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/AttributePolicy.java
@@ -93,9 +93,8 @@ static final class AttributePolicyJoiner
 		Optional<List<AttributePolicy>> split(AttributePolicy x) {
         if (x instanceof JoinedAttributePolicy) {
           return Optional.of(((JoinedAttributePolicy) x).policies);
-        } else {
-			return Optional.empty();
         }
+        return Optional.empty();
       }
 
       @Override
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/CssTokens.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/CssTokens.java
index 4c2ec3ad..a72a07f5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/CssTokens.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/CssTokens.java
@@ -736,16 +736,15 @@ private boolean consumeIgnorable() {
               if (ast < 0) {
                 pos = cssLimit;  // Unclosed /* comment */
                 break;
-              } else {
-                // Advance over a run of '*'s.
-                pos = ast + 1;
-                while (pos < cssLimit && css.charAt(pos) == '*') {
-                  ++pos;
-                }
-                if (pos < cssLimit && css.charAt(pos) == '/') {
-                  ++pos;
-                  break;
-                }
+              }
+              // Advance over a run of '*'s.
+              pos = ast + 1;
+              while (pos < cssLimit && css.charAt(pos) == '*') {
+                ++pos;
+              }
+              if (pos < cssLimit && css.charAt(pos) == '/') {
+                ++pos;
+                break;
               }
             }
           } else if (next == '/') {  // Non-standard but widely supported
@@ -778,10 +777,9 @@ private boolean consumeIgnorable() {
       }
       if (pos == posBefore) {
         return false;
-      } else {
-        breakOutput();
-        return true;
       }
+      breakOutput();
+      return true;
     }
 
     private void breakOutput() {
@@ -846,9 +844,8 @@ private boolean consumeAtKeyword() {
         --pos;  // back up over '@'
         sb.setLength(bufferLengthBeforeWrite);  // Unwrite the '@'
         return false;
-      } else {
-        return true;
       }
+      return true;
     }
 
 
@@ -1122,11 +1119,10 @@ private TokenType consumeString() {
               pos += 2;
             }
             continue;
-          } else {
-            decoded = consumeAndDecodeEscapeSequence();
-            if (decoded < 0) {
-              break;
-            }
+          }
+          decoded = consumeAndDecodeEscapeSequence();
+          if (decoded < 0) {
+            break;
           }
         } else {
           ++pos;
@@ -1137,11 +1133,11 @@ private TokenType consumeString() {
       if (closed) {
         sb.append('\'');
         return TokenType.STRING;
-      } else {  // Drop <bad-string>s
-        sb.setLength(startOfStringOnOutput);
-        breakOutput();
-        return TokenType.WHITESPACE;
       }
+      // Drop <bad-string>s
+      sb.setLength(startOfStringOnOutput);
+      breakOutput();
+      return TokenType.WHITESPACE;
     }
 
     private @Nullable TokenType consumeHash() {
@@ -1258,11 +1254,10 @@ private boolean consumeUnicodeRange() {
           sb.setCharAt(bufferStart + 1, 'r');
           sb.setCharAt(bufferStart + 2, 'l');
           return TokenType.URL;
-        } else {
-          sb.setLength(bufferStart);
-          breakOutput();
-          return TokenType.WHITESPACE;
         }
+        sb.setLength(bufferStart);
+        breakOutput();
+        return TokenType.WHITESPACE;
       } else if (parenAfter) {
         openBracket('(');
         ++pos;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Handler.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Handler.java
index 73339a96..5ead7ddd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Handler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Handler.java
@@ -57,9 +57,8 @@ public void handle(Object x) {
     public void handle(Throwable th) {
       if (th instanceof RuntimeException) {
         throw (RuntimeException) th;
-      } else {
-        throw new AssertionError(null, th);
       }
+      throw new AssertionError(null, th);
     }
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlEntities.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlEntities.java
index bc5a80c0..fc95720f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlEntities.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlEntities.java
@@ -2467,10 +2467,9 @@ public static int appendDecodedEntity(
     if (codepoint < 0) {
       sb.append('&');
       return offset + 1;
-    } else {
-      sb.appendCodePoint(codepoint);
-      return tail;
     }
+    sb.appendCodePoint(codepoint);
+    return tail;
   }
 
   private static boolean isHtmlIdContinueChar(char ch) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlLexer.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlLexer.java
index cc6d2bbf..592fe3d7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlLexer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlLexer.java
@@ -146,11 +146,10 @@ protected HtmlToken produce() {
                 state = State.SAW_EQ;
                 // Skip the '=' token
                 return produce();
-              } else {
-                // Reclassify as attribute name
-                token = HtmlInputSplitter.reclassify(
-                    token, HtmlTokenType.ATTRNAME);
               }
+              // Reclassify as attribute name
+              token = HtmlInputSplitter.reclassify(
+                  token, HtmlTokenType.ATTRNAME);
             } else {
               state = State.IN_TAG;
             }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlPolicyBuilder.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlPolicyBuilder.java
index 54c0305f..3e07cb5b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlPolicyBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlPolicyBuilder.java
@@ -855,9 +855,8 @@ private HtmlTagSkipType getHtmlTagSkipType(String elementName) {
     if (htmlTagSkipType == null) {
       if (DEFAULT_SKIP_TAG_MAP_IF_EMPTY_ATTR.containsKey(elementName)) {
         return HtmlTagSkipType.SKIP_BY_DEFAULT;
-      } else {
-        return HtmlTagSkipType.DO_NOT_SKIP_BY_DEFAULT;
       }
+      return HtmlTagSkipType.DO_NOT_SKIP_BY_DEFAULT;
     }
 
     return htmlTagSkipType;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlStreamRenderer.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlStreamRenderer.java
index c0c9d5bf..fdb68189 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlStreamRenderer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlStreamRenderer.java
@@ -269,23 +269,22 @@ private final void writeCloseTag(String uncanonElementName)
       if (!lastTagOpened.equals(elementName)) {
         error("Tag content cannot appear inside CDATA element", elementName);
         return;
-      } else {
-        StringBuilder cdataContent = pendingUnescaped;
-        pendingUnescaped = null;
-        Encoding.stripBannedCodeunits(cdataContent);
-        int problemIndex = checkHtmlCdataCloseable(lastTagOpened, cdataContent);
-        if (problemIndex == -1) {
-          if (cdataContent.length() != 0) {
-            output.append(cdataContent);
-          }
-        } else {
-          error(
-              "Invalid CDATA text content",
-              cdataContent.subSequence(
-                  problemIndex,
-                  Math.min(problemIndex + 10, cdataContent.length())));
-          // Still output the close tag.
+      }
+      StringBuilder cdataContent = pendingUnescaped;
+      pendingUnescaped = null;
+      Encoding.stripBannedCodeunits(cdataContent);
+      int problemIndex = checkHtmlCdataCloseable(lastTagOpened, cdataContent);
+      if (problemIndex == -1) {
+        if (cdataContent.length() != 0) {
+          output.append(cdataContent);
         }
+      } else {
+        error(
+            "Invalid CDATA text content",
+            cdataContent.subSequence(
+                problemIndex,
+                Math.min(problemIndex + 10, cdataContent.length())));
+        // Still output the close tag.
       }
       if ("plaintext".equals(elementName)) { return; }
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/PolicyFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/PolicyFactory.java
index cc26aaf4..0025c63b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/PolicyFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/PolicyFactory.java
@@ -95,12 +95,11 @@ public <CTX> HtmlSanitizer.Policy apply(
       @Nullable CTX context) {
     if (listener == null) {
       return apply(out);
-    } else {
-      HtmlChangeReporter<CTX> r = new HtmlChangeReporter<>(
-          out, listener, context);
-      r.setPolicy(apply(r.getWrappedRenderer()));
-      return r.getWrappedPolicy();
-    }
+    } 
+    HtmlChangeReporter<CTX> r = new HtmlChangeReporter<>(
+        out, listener, context);
+    r.setPolicy(apply(r.getWrappedRenderer()));
+    return r.getWrappedPolicy();
   }
 
   /** A convenience function that sanitizes a string of HTML. */
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Trie.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Trie.java
index 2a923c43..8da1bcd2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Trie.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/html/Trie.java
@@ -80,9 +80,8 @@ private Trie(
         this.childMap = ZERO_CHARS;
         this.children = ((Trie<T>[]) ZERO_TRIES);
         return;
-      } else {
-        ++pos;
       }
+      ++pos;
     } else {
       this.value = null;
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/ExamplesTest.java b/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/ExamplesTest.java
index adb8e251..e7c5a78b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/ExamplesTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/ExamplesTest.java
@@ -66,9 +66,8 @@ public static final void testExamplesRun() throws Exception {
             + captured.toString("UTF-8"));
         if (ex instanceof RuntimeException) {
           throw (RuntimeException) ex;
-        } else {
-          throw new AssertionError(null, ex);
         }
+        throw new AssertionError(null, ex);
       } finally {
         System.setIn(stdin);
         System.setOut(stdout);
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlSanitizerFuzzerTest.java b/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlSanitizerFuzzerTest.java
index c302dd8e..17502126 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlSanitizerFuzzerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/owasp/html/HtmlSanitizerFuzzerTest.java
@@ -149,9 +149,8 @@ public void run() {
     if (failure != null) {
       if (failure instanceof RuntimeException) {
         throw (RuntimeException) failure;
-      } else {
-        throw new AssertionError(null, failure);
       }
+      throw new AssertionError(null, failure);
     }
   }