Death Penalty

An Oklahoma death row prisoner has died of a heart attack after a botched execution Tuesday night.

One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought against …

Anti-terrorism measures in Iraq and hardline drug polices in Iran accounted for more than half of all reported government-sanctioned killings in 2013.

In seeking the death penalty for the accused Boston marathon bomber, Eric Holder violates his personal opposition, Boston public opinion and growing nationwide resistance to execution as criminal punishment.

Newly uncovered evidence suggests that Willingham, who maintained his innocence until his death, was in fact an innocent man.

West Virginia is dealing with another coal-related toxic spill, and people are finding out the hard way about the real dangers of fossil fuels.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he opposes giving the President new fast-track powers.

Damien Echols of the West Memphis 3 discusses his ordeal during a screening of a new documentary about his case.

The US death penalty resembles little more than codified state-sponsored terror based on race and class.

Ongoing military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay expose striking differences in defendants' rights and public transparency from usual federal court proceedings.