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Another cell phone camera?
By David Puner
January 9, 2007
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A dictator's final moments.
By David Puner
January 2, 2007
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Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr.
By Juan Cole
December 30, 2006
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A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
By Phillip Robertson
July 14, 2006
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A blogger debunks fellow right-wingers' conspiracy theory that an AP photographer -- now a Pulitzer Prize-winnning one -- colluded with terrorists in Iraq.
By Mark Follman
April 6, 2005
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When Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on the cases of Texas death row inmates up for clemency, his memos were so shabby they seemed intended solely to make it easy for Bush to send prisoners to their deaths.
By Alan Berlow
January 6, 2005
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Facing a possible indictment for corruption, the veteran political deal-maker shut down death row in Illinois. Is he trying to save lives -- or his own legacy?
By Patrick Arden
January 16, 2003
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The apparent architect of our worst nightmare is seen celebrating our losses. Will we do the same when he comes to a violent end?
By Gawain Charlton-Perrin
December 14, 2001
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The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.
By Paul Festa
December 4, 2001
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A judge rules that a company better known for softcore porn cannot bring Timothy McVeigh's death to the masses.
By Katharine Mieszkowski and Amy Standen
April 19, 2001
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Vengeance, not justice, will be televised with the execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber.
By Bruce Shapiro
February 24, 2001
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Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
January 12, 2001
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The attorney general must soon decide whether to try to save a possibly innocent man from the electric chair -- or leave the case for an incoming administration unlikely to do so.
By Alan Berlow
December 22, 2000
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Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares.
By Amy Goldwasser
October 20, 2000
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Actual Innocence
By Scheck, Neufeld, Dwyer
October 5, 2000
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Despite a partisan tie vote, Tennessee convict Philip Workman faces execution, while the country faces new facts about the death penalty.
By Ashley Fantz
September 14, 2000
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Bush's nonchalance toward death penalty is disturbing Plus: Is Microsoft's call for censoring justified? America's "Child Geniuses" are just book-smart.
May 15, 2000
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Chivalry lives when a woman must die.
By Cathy Young
May 4, 2000
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A death row inmate in Tennessee could be the last to die in Ol' Sparky, unless new evidence can get him a retrial.
By Ashley Fantz
March 20, 2000
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Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left
to a handful of students and academics?
By David Moberg
March 1, 2000
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The government seeks to turn around its abysmal human-rights record and gain European Union membership.
By Laurie Udesky
February 9, 2000
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Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die.
By Michael Kroll
February 8, 2000
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The state doesn't just hold a record for executions -- it proudly posts online the macabre details of hundreds of convicts' last suppers and final words.
By Donna Ladd
February 4, 2000
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Six merchants were put to death last week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers.
By Hank Hyena
December 9, 1999
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King murder trial report: In the face of naked evil, the races in Jasper, Texas, come together.
By Faulkner Fox
February 26, 1999
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Executioner's song
The execution will not be webcast
Killing McVeigh
The exonerated
Doubt on death row
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