Executions, Destruction of Property, and Arbitrary Detentions (New York) – Syrian government forces killed at least 95 civilians and burned or d...
AP | By PAUL ELIAS | Posted 04.24.2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- California voters will soon get a chance to decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility o...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.27.2012
Fewer countries worldwide used capital punishment in 2011, however those that did carry out executions did so at an "alarming rate," according to a ne...
AP | PETER JAMES SPIELMANN | Posted 03.27.2012
NEW YORK -- The United States was the only Western democracy that executed prisoners last year, even as an increasing number of U.S. states are moving...
AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 03.14.2012
PHOENIX -- With two executions already carried out so far this year and two more up for consideration next week, Arizona is on pace to match its busie...
David A. Love | Posted 02.21.2012
Executions are merely the most violent manifestation of this inequity and injustice in the land, a failure to come to terms with bad habits and the demons of an American past that continue to torment us today.
AP | JONATHAN J. COOPER | Posted 01.22.2012
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally...
Posted 12.15.2011
By Gary Strauss USA Today (RNS) More than one-third of Americans now oppose the death penalty -- the highest level in nearly 40 years -- according...
The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2011
Here's a piece of legislation you don't see every day. One Florida state Rep. is proposing a big change to the way his state handles executions. Brad ...
Clare Richardson | Posted 12.10.2011
In 2010, at least 527 people in 23 countries were executed worldwide, according to a report released by Amnesty International. The United States ra...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2011
The state of Florida executed Manuel Valle, 61, two nights ago. The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, had denied a stay.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.27.2011
Most probably are not even aware that the death penalty was once banned in America -- and not so long ago. And it happened rather suddenly and unexpectedly.
Michael Berkowitz | Posted 11.26.2011
At this rate, the Republican debates will soon run out of people to boo. That would, of course, be disastrous for their ratings and require cancellation of their show entirely.
Norm Stamper | Posted 11.23.2011
There is one rarely heard argument against the death penalty that deserves a place in the debate: Executions are the coward's way out.
Kevin Powell | Posted 11.20.2011
We are a nation of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Spiraling so far out of control that we are going to execute someone who may actually be innocent tomorrow.
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 11.09.2011
This is not really about the issue itself or even about Governor Perry, but about the applause and reaction. It is never justified to applaud at the death of another human being. Period.
AP | By RIZEK ABDUL JAWAD | Posted 09.25.2011
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip hanged a father and son at dawn Tuesday for collaborating with Israel, a government sp...
Jeremiah Sierra | Posted 08.21.2011
The face of a human being demands something of you, forces you to grapple with its individuality and complexity. It is harder to condemn someone once you've seen their face, harder to look away from the pain in their eyes.
nytimes.com | JIM YARDLEY and HARI KUMAR | Posted 08.13.2011
MEERUT, India -- India has 1.2 billion people, among them bankers, gurus, rag pickers, billionaires, snake charmers, software engineers, lentil farmer...
AP | Posted 08.10.2011
CAIRO -- Amnesty International is condemning what it says is a sharp rise in beheadings in Saudi Arabia and is urging authorities in the kingdom to ha...
Locke Bowman | Posted 07.10.2011
Obama declared that the past week "has been a reminder of what we're about as a people." It was a week in which our nation puffed out its collective chest and took deep satisfaction in one man's demise.
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 06.21.2011
A death row inmate in Oregon is campaigning to be allowed to donate his organs after he is executed. Christian Longo, 37, was convicted of killing ...
Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 06.04.2011
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers. They were ...
Posted 05.30.2011
Though overall executions are on the decline, the number of countries imposing the death penalty increased last year to 23, according to a new report....
Amnesty International | Posted 05.28.2011
While executions and death sentences have declined significantly in the U.S. over the last decade, the use of capital punishment has been collapsing at a much faster rate worldwide.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.02.2012