Capital Punishment

A(nother) Beautiful Child is Killed: What Should We Do With Her Murderers?

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago


Harold Pollack

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.

Another Innocent Man, Another Wake-up Call for the Criminal Justice System

Kirk Noble Bloodsworth | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics


Kirk Noble Bloodsworth

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.

What Will it Take to Reform California's Death Penalty?

Byron Williams | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

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?

Supreme Court ruling on child rape strikes a blow to human rights.

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living


Michealene Cristini Risley

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...

Mukasey: Don't Execute The 9/11 Plotters And Make Them Martyrs

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...

Afghanistan Executes 15 Prisoners By Firing Squad

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 ...