Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) reintroduced legislation Thursday to abolish the death penalty at the federal level. The "Federal Death Penalty Abolit...
Chicago Sun-Times | MAURICE POSSLEY | Posted 04.08.2009 | Chicago
No one has been put to death in this state in the decade since Kokoraleis died by lethal injection. On Thursday, death penalty opponents -- including ...
Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.
Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
If it were up to me, I would withdraw death penalty eligibility in all of the pending cases, and I would tell prosecutors never to seek the death penalty. There is the possibility of saving 49 lives.
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
With the current economic downturn, all government programs -- including the death penalty -- should be evaluated on whether the "benefits" they confer are worth the cost.
Harold Pollack | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago
I've seen nothing to suggest that we accomplish much by brutalizing the small and troubled people who commit atrocities. Killing these four gang bangers who murdered Nequiel Fowler does nothing to honor or memorialize this beautiful child.
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
Thanks to post-conviction DNA testing, Johnnie Earl Lindsey was freed from a Texas prison on Friday after serving 26 years for a crime he didn't commit.
Byron Williams | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Californians must confront how badly they want to be in the execution business. Is having a death penalty worth more than investing in the state's social and economic infrastructure?
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy s...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
LONDON — U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he hopes the men charged with participating in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are not...
AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three Western journalists and an Afghan photographer, the chief of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics