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Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty Mar. 17, 2025
WASHINGTON — Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealt... Read More
Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences Nov. 18, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
President-elect Donald Trump has chilling plans to use his second term to expand the federal death p... Read More
Pennsylvania Court to Review 'Death-By-Incarceration' Jun. 11, 2024
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, the former state attorney general, has called for the end of the sta... Read More
The Slow Undoing of America's Death Penalty Jan. 23, 2024
On Jan. 25, Alabama intends to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by a method known as nitrogen hypoxia. T... Read More
Missouri Lets Judges Impose Death Sentences If Juries Don't. That Should Change. Sep. 11, 2023
There's no question that Ian McCarthy shot and killed Clinton, Missouri, police officer Gary Lee Mic... Read More
Regardless of Method, the Death Penalty Is Anathema to a Civilized Society Mar. 29, 2022
At a time when Americans are increasingly opposed to the death penalty and states are increasingly e... Read More
Executions Dwindle as Public Support Falls -- End This Barbarism, Already Dec. 24, 2021
The federal and state governments carried out just 11 executions this year, the lowest annual total ... Read More
Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
The Death Penalty Remains the Strongest Deterrent to Violent Crime May. 28, 2021
In recent years, many states have moved away from lethal injections for those on death row, and some... Read More
The Life Span of the US Death Penalty Just Got Shorter Feb. 13, 2021
The death penalty in the United States is on the verge of being snuffed out. The commonwealth of Vi... Read More
Biden Could Rid America of the Barbaric Practice of Capital Punishment Feb. 12, 2021
For the first time in its history, America has a president who is on record favoring complete abolit... Read More
Executing the Intellectually Disabled Is Morally and Legally Indefensible Jan. 22, 2021
The Trump administration carried out 12 federal executions in the administration's final six months,... Read More
Machinery of Death Needs Mothballing as Americans Sour on Executions Nov. 26, 2019
A federal judge last week halted the scheduled executions of four federal inmates, thwarting the Tru... Read More
Death Penalty Politics Aug. 03, 2019
I have been studying death penalty politics (as well as law) for decades, largely because I've had t... Read More
Readers Sound off on the Death Penalty Jan. 14, 2017
Whenever I write about serial killers, guns and the death penalty, my inbox blows up. Last week's c... Read More
More States Should Ban the Death Penalty Oct. 04, 2016
Most of the civilized world has come to regard killing someone held in captivity as barbaric. The de... Read More
Our Dying Death Penalty Dec. 19, 2015
As much of the world is consumed with how to respond to the bloodthirsty and murderous group known a... Read More
California's New Death Row: Virginia Oct. 01, 2015
California has a new death row; it's called Virginia. Anti-death penalty advocates, federal judges a... Read More
Kevin Cooper Is Guilty; That's a 'Death Row' Story Jul. 26, 2015
Last year, CNN's "Death Row Stories" ran an episode about a California woman convicted of first-degr... Read More
Supreme Court Will Be Issue in 2016 Jul. 14, 2015
Capital punishment isn't going anywhere, as long as the present incarnation of the Supreme Court is ... Read More
