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December 16, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is the death penalty dying?
December 11, 2015
Brian Beutler
(Extrajudicial) murder by numbers, Donald Trump edition.
November 10, 2015
Greg Bailey
Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War Criminals?
The monument to Confederate officer Henry Wirz is down the road from the graveyard of his many victims
November 3, 2015
Daniel LaChance
Death Row Prisoners Have Plenty of Time to Find God, But Few Find Mercy
October 30, 2015
Brian Beutler
Why is Hillary So Eager to Leave Big Issues in State Hands?
This is a problem, particularly because state governments are overwhelmingly Republican
September 24, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Highlights From Pope Francis's Address to Congress
June 29, 2015
Ben Crair
The Supreme Court Just Approved a Lethal Injection Drug that No One Understands
June 29, 2015
Tara Murtha
Capital Punishment Is Hard to Abolish. Pennsylvania’s Death Penalty Battle Shows Why.
June 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Justice Samuel Alito: Death Is Often Painful, So Why Shouldn't Lethal Injection Be?
May 1, 2015
Jon Emont
“Welcome to Indonesia, Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers!”
Why the country's new president is executing more foreigners, despite international outrage
April 29, 2015
David B. Waisel, Paul Litton
Why the Lethal Injection Drug Debated by the Supreme Court Today Is Unconstitutional
April 27, 2015
Petra Bartosiewicz
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Sentencing Is Putting Everyone Through Hell
April 24, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Crimes Were Terrible, But Morality Has Nothing to Do With It
April 9, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Don't Make Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a Martyr
March 26, 2015
Cristian Farias
A California Lawyer Wants to Put Gays to Death. Why Isn't the Attorney General Ignoring Him?
Kamala Harris's response is only making matters worse
March 25, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
There Is No Such Thing as a Humane Execution
Utah is bringing back the firing squad—but we should be debating the death penalty itself
March 6, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Catholic Church Opposes the Death Penalty. Why Don't White Catholics?
January 15, 2015
Naomi Shavin
Do Veterans With PTSD Really Belong on Death Row?
October 31, 2014
Danny Vinik
Colorado's Governor's Race Could Come Down to the Death Penalty
September 4, 2014
Brian Beutler
Antonin Scalia Used This Wrongful Conviction to Defend the Death Penalty

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