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Death Penalty
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The Death Penalty: Chaotic Tedium
Who profits from the chaos that is the death penalty?
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Maryland Governor Ends Death Penalty Immediately
In an ironic twist, Maryland has killed the death penalty a little sooner than anticipated.
The Death Penalty, Missouri and the Continued Devaluing of Black Life
Death penalty states like Missouri have been treating their predominantly black death row prisoners like test subjects while protests over the worth of black life continue in Ferguson.
Arizona Inmate Takes Two Hours to Die in Botched Execution Using Experimental Two-Drug Cocktail
The state of Arizona has taken one hour and 57 minutes to kill a prisoner in a botched execution, which was carried out using the same combination of drugs …
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Medicalization of the Death and Other Penalties
The medicalization of corrections and acceptance of physicians as gatekeepers to social services, pain treatment and other desired goods is deeply problematic.
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An End to the Prison State
Local governments want drones, tanks and SWAT teams for the same reason they want prisons and the death penalty: to keep us under control.
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The GOP Death Panel
Republicans said once Obamacare was passed, government officials would get to ration health care, and as a result, have control over the life and death of millions of Americans.
Death to the Death Penalty
The problems with capital punishment go beyond innocent people being executed.
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Major Report Urges Reform of US Capital Punishment System
Innocent people will be executed in the US if the country's capital punishment system is not reformed, warns a new report from the Constitution Project.
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Death Penalty
A lesson on the death penalty with McGruff the Crime Dog.