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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
Is America's Death Penalty Dying? Jan. 07, 2017
Upon the birth of a new year, let's talk about death, shall we? Or the death penalty, to be precise.... Read More
Fix or Nix Death Penalty Oct. 25, 2016
Florida has botched executions and the way it sentences people to death so badly that it leads the n... 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
Don't Kill the Death Penalty in California Aug. 28, 2016
Opponents of California's death penalty have been highly successful at thwarting executions since th... 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
Kermit Alexander's Life Sentence Nov. 15, 2015
Former San Francisco 49ers star Kermit Alexander is death penalty opponents' worst nightmare. Foes o... 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
The Church Shooter and Capital Punishment Jun. 23, 2015
It is fitting, if late, that South Carolina's political leaders seem ready to evict the Confederate ... Read More
Death Penalty for Tsarnaev Hurts Boston May. 19, 2015
Why was 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to die in a state so generally opposed to capital pu... 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
Yes, California, There Is a Death Penalty Feb. 10, 2015
What happened to California's death penalty? There has not been an execution since 2006, when a fede... Read More
The American Way of Death Jul. 25, 2014
I will readily admit that I have been all over the map when it comes to the death penalty. As a youn... 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
A Lethal Injection of Reality May. 07, 2014
Sixteen minutes into last week's botched lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, the wa... Read More
Death for the Boston Bomber? Doubtful Mar. 01, 2014
If I were a betting woman, I'd plunk down $10 right now and bet that suspected Boston Marathon bombe... Read More
Why Do Progressives Want the Boston Bomber to Live? Feb. 11, 2014
Federal prosecutors have announced they are seeking the death penalty for Boston marathon bomber Dzh... Read More
Missouri Bypasses the Constitution in its Fumbling Hurry to Kill Jan. 13, 2014
Missouri Bypasses the Constitution in its Fumbling Hurry to Kill Kermit E. Bye of Fargo, N.D., is o... Read More
The Death Penalty, Take Two Aug. 29, 2011
When he was district attorney of Los Angeles more than a decade ago, Gil Garcetti was for the death ... Read More
