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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
Remember When the Trump Administration Started Executing Federal Inmates? Sep. 24, 2024
Imagine a candidate seeking reelection to the office of president of the United States who would sys... Read More
Crazy Talk, Crazy People and Guns Everywhere Sep. 17, 2024
One evening, just over a week ago, I was walking in Midtown Manhattan when dozens of police cars, si... 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
Traumatic Executions vs. Therapeutic Abortions Nov. 25, 2022
When National Public Radio appeals for donations, it explains its mission is "to create a more infor... 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
Can Americans Exercise Religion in an Execution Chamber? Nov. 10, 2021
Dustin Honken was convicted of murdering five people, including two children, and was sentenced to d... Read More
Federal Execution Moratorium Should Be the First Step Toward Full Death Penalty Abolition Jul. 08, 2021
In an abrupt but appropriate reversal of Trump administration policies, President Joe Biden's Justic... 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
Wanted: An Honest Debate about the Death Penalty Dec. 18, 2020
Mike Dukakis was asked by CNN's Bernard Shaw during the 1988 presidential debates whether he would s... Read More
Trump and Barr Are Rushing To Execute Inmates Before They Leave Office Dec. 03, 2020
The Trump administration, which carried out a slew of federal executions this year after a 17-year h... Read More
Americans Turn Away from the Death Penalty, and Democrats Are With Them Dec. 08, 2019
Kamala Harris has always opposed capital punishment. As district attorney of San Francisco, she refu... 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
A Battle for the Soul of the Navy SEALs May. 06, 2019
A battle for the soul of the Navy SEALs is taking place as the elite fighting force struggles to det... Read More
Don't Kill Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apr. 13, 2015
What you wanted, if you were any kind of American, was to rewind the tape to just before the bombs w... Read More
The Triumph of Dubious Death Penalty Appeals Jul. 20, 2014
A — all bow — federal judge has ruled that California's death penalty is unconstitutiona... Read More
