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Indiana Woman Condemned for Killing at 15 is Freed
(INDIANAPOLIS) — A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from...
Navy Ends CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Navy messages have been going out in ALL CAPS since sails were around. But Navy Times is reporting that the sea service has just started permitting lower-case...
Will the Boston Bomber Get the Death Penalty?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s best hope of escaping death is to admit his guilt
India’s New Rape Laws Draw Flak from Rights Groups
The debate over how to provide better legal protection to victims of sexual violence rages on in India, with rights groups vociferously objecting to a new...
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...
