Death Penalty Debate

Ohio's Perverse First Place

Deborah W. Denno | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Punishment, Ohio Death Penalty, Ken Biros, Death Penalty Debate, Ohio, Death Penalty, Ohio Lethal Injection, Lethal Injection, Politics News
Deborah W. Denno

Over the decades, lethal injection has never met its purported goal of humaneness. And Ohio's latest method of using a single-drug formula does nothing to correct this.

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Welcome to Texas: The Death Penalty State

Rachel Farris | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas-Executions, Death Penalty Moratorium, Cameron Todd Willingham, John Bradley, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Politics News
Rachel Farris

As the case against Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004, sinks like a rock, the truth has started to float to the top and the rats are streaming out from all sides, led by none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry.

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Shouting from the Rooftops

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Diann Rust-Tierney

Attention has re-focused on the case of one of the four innocent and executed, Cameron Todd Willingham. His story was recently highlighted in a chilling and compelling New Yorker article.

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Dare Devils: Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Death Panel

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Cameron Todd Willingham, Obamacare, Death Penalty Debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Death Penalty, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Innocence Project, Rick Perry, Sharon Keller, Politics News
Rachel Farris

Since when do conservatives care about anyone dying? The most disturbing example is Cameron Todd Willingham, was sentenced to death after refusing a plea-bargain for life in prison in Texas.

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Still Clinging to the Barbarity of the Death Penalty

Byron Williams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Exoneration, Corsicana, New Yorker, Death Row, Cameron Todd Willingham, Death Penalty Advocates, Death Penalty Debate, David Grann, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, Politics News
Byron Williams

Since it is impossible to avoid error, the only way one can support the death penalty is to suggest that we have expendable portions of society.

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Kenya: Death Sentences Reduced To Life By Pres. Kibaki

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's more than 4,000 death row inmates all will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the president announced ...

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As Death Penalty Questions Swirl, Bar Association Hosting Debate

AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Bar Association's death penalty task force is hosting a discussion and debate, just days after Cook County's public defend...

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Capital Punishment, Nequiel Fowler, Death Penalty Moratorium, Crime, Death Penalty Debate, Nequiel Fowler Killed, Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty Costs, Illinois Death Penalty, Chicago Crime, Chicago Gangs, Death Penalty Reform, Chicago News
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.

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An Unlikely Pair

Mike Farrell | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

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Mike Farrell

This Piece Was Co-written by Donald A. McCartin We are an unlikely pair -- not "The Odd Couple," but close. Forty-five years ago, one was a successfu...

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The Death Penalty - A Quick Primer

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Coker v. Georgia, Death Penalty Debate, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Death Penalty, Supreme Court and Child Rape, Scotus Blog, Scotus, United State Supreme Court, Politics News
Malcolm Friedberg

The Supreme Court's decision this morning to ban use of the death penalty in cases of child rape is consistent with its historical position on the issue.

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