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Put To Death For Being Black: New Hope Against Judicial System Bias
The wind of revolution is beginning to blow through the halls of justice. It’s a small breeze now and the impact of what many consider one of the worst Supreme...
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the number of known judicial executions carried out globally in 2011 (excluding China), up from 527 in 2010, according to Amnesty International’s annual capital...
Why the Death Penalty Is Slowly Dying
California is having problems with its death penalty. It hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, when a federal court ruled that its method of lethal injection was...
Werner Herzog Does Not Have Interviews. He Has Converstions
"I know the heart of men," says the director about his new death row documentary, Into the Abyss.
Articles of Faith: Is the Death Penalty in Keeping with Catholic Doctrine (and Should Justice Scalia Resign)?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia addressed the morality of capital punishment earlier this week in a speech at a Catholic law school in Pittsburgh. "If I...
The Legendary Lawyer Who Will Defend Loughner: Judy Clarke
When he made his appearance in court on Monday, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, stood next to a woman a head taller than he is. Judy Clarke, 58, embodies his biggest...
Report: Death Penalty Use and Support Is Dropping
Enthusiasm for the death penalty continued to ebb in the United States during 2010. As Christmas approaches — a season of quiet in America's...
Stevens' Powerful Anti-Death-Penalty Views
Former Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court in June after turning 90, has come out swinging in the past few days against the death...
Dwindling Death Penalty: Victim of the Recession?
The death penalty used to be a big deal, important enough to figure prominently in the 1988 presidential debates. Four years later, in 1992, White House aspirant...
Kenya's Death Row Inmates Get Life Instead
In a move meant to ease the "mental anguish" of prison inmates and make it possible to put them to work, Kenya's president has commuted the sentences of the...
