Death Penalty

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  • Why don't Catholic bishops care about healthcare?

    Catholic leaders lobby against abortion and euthanasia, but where's their activism on that other "life" issue?
  • Scalia: Innocence doesn't matter

    In an unusual ruling, the Supreme Court orders a Georgia court to review the case of a death row inmate
  • One way to get Republicans behind the stimulus

    Some states, strapped for cash, are considering abolishing capital punishment as a cost-saving measure.
  • Ardor in the court, Part 2

    Salon reported on an alleged affair between judge and prosecutor in a Texas murder trial. Now, days before Charles Hood's scheduled execution, his lawyers make the allegation in court papers.
  • Racial bias in the death penalty

    A new study confirms a disparity in the death penalty based on the victim's race, and suggests one based on the convict's race as well.
  • Who would Antonin Scalia torture?

    Next week, when the Supreme Court hears a case challenging the use of lethal injections, we may learn more about the legal limits to state-sanctioned pain.
  • Will Schwarzenegger's new death chamber actually help inmates?

    If building a new lethal-injection facility will improve quality of life for prisoners on California's death row, I'm for it.
  • Pregnant on death row

    A Vietnamese inmate gets pregnant while in solitary confinement. Will she still die by firing squad, or will her pregnancy save her life?
  • How to humanize a killer

    Defense teams in capital cases research their clients' childhood -- and conduct often-harrowing interviews with the clients' families -- to evoke sympathy from juries. Critics call mitigation evidence the "abuse excuse."
  • The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams

    Outside San Quentin prison Monday night, under the floodlights, death penalty opponents prayed, sang hymns and cursed the Terminator.
  • The politics of injustice

    The testimony of one bogus witness put Larry Fowlkes away on murder charges for 45 years. Will presidential hopeful Gov. Mark Warner set him free?
  • A victory for Mumia

    A court rules that Mumia Abu-Jamal can appeal his murder conviction on three separate grounds.
  • Ardor in the court

    When the judge and prosecutor involved in a capital case are sleeping together, can the defendant possibly get a fair trial? Meet Charles Dean Hood, on Texas' death row.
  • Death knell for the death penalty?

    Texas legislators -- yes, Texas -- are on the verge of approving a law that could result in a decline in executions nationwide.
  • The executioner's swan song

    Reflecting growing national unease with the ultimate punishment, New York strikes down its death penalty law.
  • The Kennedy backlash begins

    Smarting from the Supreme Court's death penalty decision, Gary Bauer warns the right that Anthony Kennedy is fixing to turn over the United States to foreigners -- including the French!
  • The death knell for Anthony Kennedy?

    Voting to prohibit the death penalty for juvenile killers, Anthony Kennedy comes full circle. But did he kill any chance of becoming chief justice?
  • The ultimate punishment

    Scott Turow tried -- and failed -- to build a better death penalty. Now he wants it abolished.
  • Life sentences

    Novelist Mark Salzman, who spent four years teaching locked-up young hoods in L.A., talks about his students, their writing and how they inspired him to have a child of his own.
  • Unjust executions

    Sentencing errors send inmates who deserve life to their death, even after the mistakes are discovered and ruled unconstitutional.
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