Ohio's Perverse First Place
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.
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.
Rachel Farris | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
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.
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Rachel Farris | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's more than 4,000 death row inmates all will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the president announced ...
AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | Chicago
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...
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
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.
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.
Mike Farrell | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
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...
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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.
Deborah W. Denno | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics