Source: The New York Times
For the first time in a generation, the question of whether the death penalty deters murders has captured the attention of scholars in law and economics, setting off an intense new debate about one of the central justifications for capital punishment.
Source: The New York Times
For the first time in a generation, the question of whether the death penalty deters murders has captured the attention of scholars in law and economics, setting off an intense new debate about one of the central justifications for capital punishment.
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
The U.S. is one of very, very few western nations that still engage in state-sponsored killing. The rest of the western world sees the death penalty as barbaric, which it is. It is also illogical: Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?
Today the state of Florida will kill Mark Dean Schwab, at 6 pm, unless the supreme court stops it; Schwab was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and murdering an eleven year old boy.
Source: The New York Times
When the Supreme Court rules on its next capital punishment case, it probably won't mean an end to executions, but they may be done differently.
Source: The New York Times
Decades of executions have taught us this: technical systems are prone to failure, and human bodies are irreducibly complex and idiosyncratic.
Source: The New York Times
States unwilling to pay the huge costs of defending people charged in capital cases may be unable to hold executions.
Source: The New York Times
The stay indicates that a Supreme Court majority intends to block all executions until a lethal injection case is decided next spring.
Source: The New York Times
Moments before a Mississippi prisoner was scheduled to die by lethal injection, the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution on Tuesday evening and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block all executions until the court decides a lethal inj …
Source: The New York Times
A Connecticut congregation debates capital punishment after the brutal murders of three of its members.
Source: The New York Times
The fate of Iraq's former minister of defense will turn on the ability of Iraq's fractious sects and political alliances to work together.
Source: The New York Times
The judge turned away the last appeal of a death row inmate because the rushed filing was delayed past the court's 5 p.m. closing time.
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Excellent analysis of the eighth amendment, state rights and capital punishment.
Source: CBC
The Canadian homicide rate fell by 10 per cent last year, in keeping with a downward trend that has gone on for three decades, according to an analysis of crime figures published Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
Source: The New York Times
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- High-profile lawyers are accusing a state judge of violating the rights of a condemned inmate by cutting off appeals once office hours ended, leading to his execution.
Source: The New York Times
A death row inmate can persuade the Supreme Court that his case should be reviewed while failing to convince it to make sure he stays alive in the meantime.
Source: The New York Times
All but eight states now give inmates access to DNA evidence that might not have been available at the time of their convictions.
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Some international gay rights groups believe that more than 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979.
Can a person with a history illustrating a crass lack of empathy for fellow humans be trusted to lead a country? To lead our children into war? It's well known that when George Bush was the Governor of Texas, more Death Row inmates were executed than in the entire history of tha …
Source: The Boston Globe
remember that nearly all black homicide is intraracial - more than nine out of 10 black murder victims in the United States are killed by black murderers. So applying the death penalty in more cases where the victim is black would mean sending more black men to death row.
Source: The New York Times
Ensnared in a Texas law that makes accomplices subject to the death penalty, Kenneth Foster is to become the third death row inmate this week to be executed.
Agence France-Presse • Aug. 14, 2007. 11:29 AM EST
Source: The New York Times
A recent spate of botched executions has led some courts and states in the encouraging direction of halting the procedures and reviewing lethal-injection protocols.
Source: The New York Times
A study I completed recently indicated that about two-thirds of so-called wrongful convictions resulted from intentional, malicious prosecutions by criminal justice personnel.
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Blacks convicted of killing whites are not only more likely than other killers to receive a death sentence – they are also more likely to actually be executed, a new study suggests.