http://dir.salon.com/topics/execution/?source=rss&aim=execution en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST By David Puner Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/01/09/saddam_neck_footage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/01/09/saddam_neck_footage/index.html?source=rss Another cell phone camera? By David Puner Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/01/02/saddam_gallows_footage/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/01/02/saddam_gallows_footage/index.html?source=rss A dictator's final moments. By Juan Cole Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/30/saddam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/12/30/saddam/index.html?source=rss Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr. By Phillip Robertson Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/14/kidnapping/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/14/kidnapping/index.html?source=rss A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong. By Mark Follman Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/06/ap/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/04/06/ap/index.html?source=rss A blogger debunks fellow right-wingers' conspiracy theory that an AP photographer -- now a Pulitzer Prize-winnning one -- colluded with terrorists in Iraq. By Alan Berlow Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/06/gonzales_death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/06/gonzales_death/index.html?source=rss 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 Patrick Arden Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/16/ryan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/16/ryan/index.html?source=rss 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 Gawain Charlton-Perrin Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/12/14/death_react/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/12/14/death_react/index.html?source=rss 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 Paul Festa Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/12/04/solotaroff/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/12/04/solotaroff/index.html?source=rss The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty. By Katharine Mieszkowski and Amy Standen Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/04/19/mcveigh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/04/19/mcveigh/index.html?source=rss A judge rules that a company better known for softcore porn cannot bring Timothy McVeigh's death to the masses. By Bruce Shapiro Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/02/24/mcveigh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/02/24/mcveigh/index.html?source=rss Vengeance, not justice, will be televised with the execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/01/12/black_women/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/01/12/black_women/index.html?source=rss Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. By Alan Berlow Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/22/death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/22/death/index.html?source=rss 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 Amy Goldwasser Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/20/exonerated/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/20/exonerated/index.html?source=rss Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares. By Scheck, Neufeld, Dwyer Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/scheck/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/scheck/index.html?source=rss Actual Innocence By Ashley Fantz Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/14/tennessee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/14/tennessee/index.html?source=rss Despite a partisan tie vote, Tennessee convict Philip Workman faces execution, while the country faces new facts about the death penalty. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/05/15/texas_executions/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/05/15/texas_executions/index.html?source=rss Bush's nonchalance toward death penalty is disturbing Plus: Is Microsoft's call for censoring justified? America's "Child Geniuses" are just book-smart. By Cathy Young Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/05/04/death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/05/04/death/index.html?source=rss Chivalry lives when a woman must die. By Ashley Fantz Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/20/death_row/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/03/20/death_row/index.html?source=rss A death row inmate in Tennessee could be the last to die in Ol' Sparky, unless new evidence can get him a retrial. By David Moberg Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/01/deathpenalty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/01/deathpenalty/index.html?source=rss Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left to a handful of students and academics? By Laurie Udesky Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/09/turkey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/09/turkey/index.html?source=rss The government seeks to turn around its abysmal human-rights record and gain European Union membership. By Michael Kroll Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/08/death_penalty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/08/death_penalty/index.html?source=rss Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. By Donna Ladd Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/02/04/texas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/02/04/texas/index.html?source=rss 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 Hank Hyena Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/1999/12/09/execution/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/1999/12/09/execution/index.html?source=rss Six merchants were put to death last week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers. By Faulkner Fox Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/02/26/news950653139/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/02/26/news950653139/index.html?source=rss King murder trial report: In the face of naked evil, the races in Jasper, Texas, come together.