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  • Death Penalty Walking
    Jan. 3, 2008 | By David Von Drehle
    Capital punishment costs millions of dollars to enforce. Untrained personnel are administering lethal injections. Now a Supreme Court case may force us to consider whether this system makes sense
  • The Death Penalty Under Fire
    Oct. 7, 2002 | By Viveca Novak
    John Ashcroft's aggressive pursuit of the death penalty may be backfiring. A U.S. district judge in Vermont last week ruled the federal death penalty unconstitutional, arguing that the law violates defendants' due-process rights because it allows looser procedures and standards of evidence in sentencing than are allowed at trial. The ruling in U.S. v. Fell ...
  • The Law: Delay on the Death Penalty
    Jun. 15, 1970
    Although 14 American states—and most Western nations—have substantially abolished the death penalty, the Supreme Court has thus far declined to rule on its constitutionality. Last fall the court agreed to review the conviction of William Maxwell, 30, an Arkansas Negro sentenced to death in 1962 for the rape of a white woman. But the case ...
  • Criminal Justice: Death for the Death Penalty?
    Apr. 2, 1965
    For decades, Western civilization has been edging away from the Biblical in junction of an "eye for an eye." In Britain, the death penalty (hanging) is now close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but with the recent addition of ...
  • Still Sweet 16
    Jul. 11, 1988
    The U.S. is one of a handful of nations that permit the death penalty for offenders who committed crimes before the age of 18. Only three juvenile killers have been executed since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle ...
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