The only thing being accomplished by the death penalty is death itself. A country that brutally murders its citizens seems as far from developed or democratic as it can possibly be.
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 04.25.2012
FLORENCE, Ariz. -- The attorney for an Arizona death-row inmate executed Wednesday said he was "very disturbed" after seeing his client shake for seve...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 03.28.2012
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — How does a man move on with his life after losing his wife and daughters to two ruthless home invaders who tormented, then ki...
AP | By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 02.08.2012
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A jury condemned a Connecticut man to death Friday for killing a woman and her two dau...
AP | By JOHN MILBURN | Posted 12.11.2011
LYNDON, Kan. -- A judge sentenced a Kansas man to death Tuesday for fatally shooting his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmothe...
Mustafa Akyol | Posted 12.10.2011
Instead of remaining silent in the face of executions such as the one that Yousef Nadarkhani faces, let alone condoning them, we Muslims should speak out against them forcefully.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2011
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry -- who as Texas governor has overseen the execution of 235 convicted killers -- said Friday that he “resp...
AP | Posted 09.12.2011
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian woman convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning has been allowed to briefly leave the prison for her mot...
AP | Posted 08.20.2011
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The judge in the Casey Anthony murder trial has scolded defense attorneys and prosecutors for wasting time as they argue about l...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.16.2011
Casey Anthony's defense team came out swinging this afternoon, when lawyers asked a DNA expert if law enforcement had ordered a paternity test to dete...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.16.2011
Casey Anthony’s defense team presented testimony this morning from the FBI’s forensic DNA expert who had examined evidence in the case. The testim...
AP | By ADRIAN SAINZ | Posted 08.11.2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A jury issued a death sentence Saturday for a Memphis man found guilty of murdering the mother of his three children and then dismem...
Posted 07.24.2011
An Egyptian criminal court handed down the first protest-connected death sentence Monday to a Cairo police officer charged with killing protesters inv...
AP | Posted 07.12.2011
BEIJING -- A former vice mayor of China's wealthy resort city of Hangzhou was sentenced to death Thursday on corruption charges, state media reported,...
AP | Posted 06.19.2011
BEIJING -- A Chinese farmer has appealed the death sentence he was given for raping 116 women, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday. Dai Qingcheng, 46,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 06.15.2011
At a podium inside the Roosevelt Hotel last week, Wilbert Rideau, 69, stood before an audience of academics and journalists, as he prepared to deliver...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 8,000 prisoners sentenced to death by Pakistani courts over the past 20 years still languish in jail, the Asian Human Rights Commission has ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House has approved a plan to abolish capital punishment in a whirlwind reversal on a historic vote. The legisl...
The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011
As is typical of many Supreme Court opinions rejecting legal arguments advanced by defendants in capital cases, Garland's prologue begins with a detai...
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, the governor of Punjab state told CNN Tuesday. "...
The Guardian | Saeed Kamali Dehghan | Posted 05.25.2011
Newspapers, agencies and TV channels in Iran have been banned from reporting Mohammadi Ashtiani's death sentence, despite an international campaign la...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SALT LAKE CITY � The lawyer for a condemned Utah killer set to be executed by firing squad next month says the inmate will ask a pardons board to co...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 05.25.2011
A 42-year-old mother of two faces the punishment of death by stoning in Iran after authorities convicted her of adultery. And according to Mina Ahadi,...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
After hearing testimony about Edward Tenney's career of crime for three weeks, a DuPage County jury has decided that he should be put to death for the...
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's an interesting phenomenon: Author writes a sequel -- but to the movie rather than the original novel.
Jess Coleman | Posted 05.18.2012