Have you ever been in a situation where everyone seemingly agrees on a particular strategy, but somehow it never happens?
AP | MARGERY A. BECK | Posted 04.20.2012
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska will not surrender its supply of a controversial execution drug to the Food and Drug Administration because it believes t...
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.30.2012
Legally killing people has gotten more expensive. The price of execution drugs is now 15 times higher than it was a year ago, according to The Aust...
Posted 02.10.2012
A Utah man has opted for execution by firing squad to carry out his death sentence for a 1988 murder in which he stabbed a man in the liver with a tir...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.03.2012
I agree -- even though my own rage would be hyperactive if I or a loved one was violated -- I still agree that killing for killing's sake does not bring a person back, and who is to say that it does justice if it enmeshes us forever in a cycle of violence?
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to hear a controversial death penalty case out of Texas and agreed to hear oral argument on...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.28.2011
A group of current and former lawmakers, judges and lawyers is calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to grant DNA testing for a convicted murderer with an ...
Lonette McKee | Posted 12.25.2011
Lately, I've been saddened and sickened by a lot of things in the news. I was particularly appalled and disgusted by the execution of Troy Davis. We...
Pat Nolan | Posted 11.26.2011
While most of the press was focused on last week's execution of Troy David in Georgia, the same night another prisoner was executed halfway across the...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.28.2011
Manuel Valle's execution is drawing added interest as a kind of "test" of a new execution "cocktail" of chemicals. Protests by activists led to a leading supplier refusing to continue to send lethal chemicals to death rows.
Debbie Hines | Posted 11.23.2011
Troy Davis' execution must be the beginning of a new resurgence in this country to end the death penalty. The fight must continue forward and that's w...
Sam Sommers | Posted 11.23.2011
It's hard to escape the notion that the most salient difference between the cases is that Crowe is a White man and Davis is Black. And study after study of capital trials across jurisdictions --including Georgia -- have demonstrated that race matters when it comes to the death penalty.
Rev. J.C. Austin | Posted 11.23.2011
He didn't say we didn't care about capital punishment. He didn't say we didn't care about the state killing "anyone." He said we didn't care about Lawrence Brewer. And, the truth is, he's right.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's order Wednesday night denying Troy Anthony Davis' stay of execution states, in its entirety, "The application for st...
AP | Posted 11.21.2011
COLUMBUS, Ga. — The mother of a slain Georgia police officer says she is agonizing over the wait while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to...
James Clark | Posted 11.21.2011
After a day-long hearing Monday in Atlanta, the Georgia State Board of Pardons of Paroles yesterday denied clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, in the fa...
Paula Gordon | Posted 11.20.2011
The nation of Gabon abolished capital punishment on the 14th day of February, 2011. When will the United States of America be that civilized? Capital ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2011
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry -- who as Texas governor has overseen the execution of 235 convicted killers -- said Friday that he “resp...
Shane Claiborne | Posted 11.16.2011
It is this dual conviction that no one is above reproach and that no one is beyond redemption that lies at the heart of our faith. Undoubtedly it's why the early Christians were characterized by non-violence.
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011
The execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die in less than a week, should be halted because of "pervasive, persistent doubt...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 10.12.2011
Of the 26 countries that are categorized as free, only the U.S. and Japan had performed executions in 2010. This can be contrasted with the nearly 25% of countries classified as authoritarian that performed executions in 2010.
AP | By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011
JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what expe...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011
After a lifetime of bitter prejudice that drove him to kill innocent strangers, Mark Stroman died with a message of peace. Stroman, 41, was execut...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011
Texas executed a Mexican man on Thursday night after shrugging off concerns voiced by Obama administration lawyers and a broad cross-section of legal ...
The Guardian | Saeed Kamali Dehghan | Posted 09.06.2011
Iran has executed an average of almost two people a day in the first six months of this year, human rights groups have warned. The sharp escalation...
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.22.2012