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Key Expert in Supreme Court Lethal Injection Case Did His Research on Drugs.com
How the Supreme Court case over lethal injection shows it's becoming nearly impossible to find experts to defend the practice.
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Egyptian Death Sentence for Soccer Fans Puts President’s Iron Grip to the Test
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 …
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Mercy Is Ours to Give, if We Choose It
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, if spared, will live a long life in the federal penal system.
US Pharmacists Association Urges Members to Stop Providing Execution Drugs
Pharmacists now join physicians and anesthesiologists.
There’s So Much Life Here: A Death Row Prisoner Looks Back on Over 20 Years in Solitary Confinement
Keith LaMar has been in solitary confinement for more than 21 years.
Witnesses Against Death Row Grandmother Admit They Lied Following Threats From Prosecutors
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.
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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 …