COLUMBUS, Ohio — An appeals court on Friday refused to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate who could become the first person in the United States ...
Renee Feltz | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
As Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the first man set to die may be mentally retarded.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
You had to live in the DC area that horrible month to know the impact the Sniper had on us. Fear was a constant companion.
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
I'm scared by the real life capital punishment system. As of this week, 139 individuals have been exonerated after being sentenced to die -- and some came terrifyingly close to execution.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
A couple of weeks ago, before the publication of Superfreakonomics, the follow up to the bestselling Freakonomics by New York Times "Freakonomics" col...
David A. Love | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
Cameron Todd Willingham is now a free man, but unfortunately it took death to release him from the confines of his prison bars.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Carl Sagan famously said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that killing prisoners acts as a deterrent or keeps police safe is indeed extraordinary.
AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
DALLAS — A report concluding a faulty investigation led to a Texas man's execution won't be reviewed by a state board as planned Friday after Go...
Michael G. Winston | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
Instead of mandating across-the-board cuts, smart companies focus on work that really matters. They work aggressively to overthrow existing systems and structures which do not support their business vision.
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.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
Shouldn't we take this opportunity to have a national conversation on our broken military?
Inter Press Service | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani | Inter Press Service Cairo -- Egyptian courts have handed down unprecedented numbers of death sentence...
Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Only three countries in the world -- China, Iran and Saudi Arabia -- execute more prisoners than the U.S each year; a practice that costs the nation hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
AP | GEORGE FREY | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
VILSECK, Germany — A U.S. soldier convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four blindfolded Iraqis apologized for shooting one of ...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
A new Al Jazeera English video reports that Iran is considering a law that would make "offensive" blogging punishable by death. The video notes an Am...
Melissa Gira Grant | Posted 03.09.2009 | World
The Bush administration has supported the raids of Cambodian brothels for at least as long as Kristof has been demanding they step up a fight they are already in -- and losing.
Richard C. Dieter | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
California has 670 people on death row. Each one of them costs the state about $90,000 per year over what it would cost to keep them in prison if they were condemned to permanent jail time instead.
Diane Dimond | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living
Seventeen years ago, Vicki Rios-Martinez's son Junny was kidnapped, sexually molested and murdered. On July 1st, she and her family were present for the execution of her son's killer.
David C. Fathi | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
Since 1973, 129 persons -- including five in Georgia -- have been released from death rows in the United States because of evidence that they were innocent.
AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home
CAIRO, Egypt — An Iranian journalist sentenced to death on terrorism charges has been executed in what a human rights group on Tuesday called a ...
Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Shame on the Supreme Court for preferring to inhabit their cocoon of respectability on lethal injections -- justice masked by legalese -- than to face the facts.
AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home