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Supreme Court backs states carrying out executions

While the use of the death penalty has waned nationally, the Supreme Court has continued to give the green light for states to carry out executions.

BALTIMORE – As far as I know, the last person to be strapped into the gas chamber at the Maryland

By Richard E. Vatz For Maryland Reporter Immediately following the despicable, murderous attack on the innocent victims at the Capital

If you’re thirsting to understand our increasingly cold, jaundiced, at times carcinogenic society, James Baldwin’s singular insight about America and

Wiping the stain of capital punishment clean On Monday, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a case with

In a blood-thirsty column clamoring for faster executions in the United States, John Steele Gordon, a writer specializing in financial and business

Is Alabama hiding evidence it tortured two of its citizens? Before Ronald Bert Smith’s corpse grew cold – following his patently

Tied for seventh among states with the most exonerated defendants according to a February 2016 report by the National Registry of

Ghoulishness envelops Arkansas’ decision to pump deadly drugs into eight men over the next fortnight. Although two of the eight

In a jittery, newly authoritarian land of hatred and hurt, chastened criminal and social justice reformers and human rights advocates