Executions

China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 10.27.2009 | World


BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...

Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media


Rob Fishman

It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?

Does a Botched Execution Constitute Double Jeopardy?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics


Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Despite our personal desire for vengeance and punishment, it should not be the function or policy of the government to impose the death penalty.

China Executions To Be Reduced To "An Extremely Small Number"

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


China, which executes more people per year than any other country, vowed this week to cut back on the habit, ABC News reports. According to Supreme P...

Egypt Death Sentences At An All-Time High

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...

Goodbye/Hello 7 "Human Rights Gone Wrong"

Patt Cottingham | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


Patt Cottingham

Goodbye to seating inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table. Hello to removing inhumane governments and regimes at the human rights table.

Iran Mulls Death Penalty For Offensive Bloggers (VIDEO)

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...

US Executions, Death Sentences On Decline

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 01.10.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — New death sentences in the United States were at or near a three-decade low this year and the number of people executed will be the...

Faith-Based Cruelty: The Other Georgia

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


Paula Gordon

What day and time you will die? I, for one, have no interest in knowing. Troy Anthony Davis, almost certainly an innocent man, knows. He'll die Tue...

China Defends High Death Penalty Use As Olympics Approaches

AP | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home


China limits the death penalty to a small number of serious criminals and does not have any plans to abolish it, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. T...