Death Penalty

A member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty describes how racism is aided and abetted by prosecutors in America's injustice system.

This is a tragic little corner of US “culture wars,” where their moral beliefs require them to execute thy neighbor.

The death penalty makes errors irreversible and in the most serious criminal cases.

The expert ended up prompting a back-and-forth between Supreme Court justices, who narrowly upheld use of a lethal injection drug.

The Supreme Court's majority opinion, as much as the dissent, shows that the state should not be permitted to execute its citizens.

The mushrooming prison population is a political ticking time bomb.

These US governors support of the death penalty looks more like blood thirst than a desire for actual justice.

“On May 16, an Egyptian court sentenced me to death in absentia in a highly politicised case.”

How the Supreme Court case over lethal injection shows it's becoming nearly impossible to find experts to defend the practice.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al Sisi's iron grip on dissident is likely to be put to the test with the sentencing to death of 11 soccer fans for involvement …