Capital Punishment

Arthur Delaney

Feingold To Death Penalty: Drop Dead

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics


Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) reintroduced legislation Thursday to abolish the death penalty at the federal level. The "Federal Death Penalty Abolit...

10 Years Since Illinois' Last Execution, Death Penalty Abolition Movement Fights On

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 ...

Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics


Gov. Martin O'Malley

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.

Eric Holder: Help Save 49 Lives, Please!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics


Claudia Ricci

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.

Abolishing the Death Penalty in the Era of Hope

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics


Diann Rust-Tierney

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.

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 ...