Death Penalty

Keith LaMar has been in solitary confinement for more than 21 years.

Key witnesses against a British grandmother on death row in Texas have said that prosecutors in her 2002 trial threatened or “blackmailed” them into testifying against her.

Who profits from the chaos that is the death penalty?

In an ironic twist, Maryland has killed the death penalty a little sooner than anticipated.

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.

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 …

The medicalization of corrections and acceptance of physicians as gatekeepers to social services, pain treatment and other desired goods is deeply problematic.

Local governments want drones, tanks and SWAT teams for the same reason they want prisons and the death penalty: to keep us under control.

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.

The problems with capital punishment go beyond innocent people being executed.