Execution

  • More Saddam footage

    Another cell phone camera?
    By David Puner January 9, 2007

  • Saddam gallows video

    A dictator's final moments.
    By David Puner January 2, 2007

  • Saddam: The death of a dictator

    Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr.
    By Juan Cole December 30, 2006

  • Incident on Khairallah Tulfa Street

    A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
    By Phillip Robertson July 14, 2006

  • The AP in cahoots with terrorists? Try again

    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

  • The facilitator

    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

  • The redemption of Gov. Ryan

    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

  • Are you ready to dance on Osama's grave?

    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

  • Executioner's song

    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

  • The execution will not be webcast

    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

  • Killing McVeigh

    Vengeance, not justice, will be televised with the execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber.
    By Bruce Shapiro February 24, 2001

  • Hardest hit by the prison craze

    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

  • Janet Reno's fatal decision

    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

  • The exonerated

    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

  • Scheck, Neufeld, Dwyer

    Actual Innocence
    By Scheck, Neufeld, Dwyer October 5, 2000

  • Doubt on death row

    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

  • Letters to the editor

    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

  • Sexism and the death chamber

    Chivalry lives when a woman must die.
    By Cathy Young May 4, 2000

  • Dead man talking

    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

  • Carrying justice

    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

  • Turkey at the crossroads

    The government seeks to turn around its abysmal human-rights record and gain European Union membership.
    By Laurie Udesky February 9, 2000

  • Executioner's swan song?

    Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die.
    By Michael Kroll February 8, 2000

  • Texas' death-row peep show

    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

  • Chinese wife-enslavers executed

    Six merchants were put to death last week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers.
    By Hank Hyena December 9, 1999

  • Justice in Jasper

    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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