Death Penalty

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.

Peter Dreier looks back at 2012 and 25 powerful progressive victories, including elections, ballot measures, court rulings, legislation and new waves of mobilization.

Although many will dispute his exclusion of other forms of aggression as violence, few will argue that Timothy Leary's assertion is more valid than ever now: Violence is killing …

A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty.

The former warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford, joins us to discuss why she has come out in favor of Proposition 34, a ballot initiative to abolish …

The state of Florida is pushing for the execution of an elderly prisoner with paranoid schizophrenia despite a Supreme Court ruling that prohibits executing the mentally ill.

A perfect alignment of advantageous factors enabled opponents of capital punishment to place its abolition on the ballot for the first time in California.

Iceland is taking the lead in breaking up the big banks, and more news updates from the Thom Hartmann Program's Jim Javinsky.

Steidl spent twelve years on Illinois' death row, awaiting execution by lethal injection and five more years as an LWOP (Life Without Parole) prisoner before he was finally exonerated …

Murder without due process is the government act that fundamentally separates free societies from authoritarian regimes.