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The Barbaric Lust to Execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev »

By Matthew Rothschild, April 23, 2013

Vengeance should not be part of our penal system.read more


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Executing Tsarnaev? What Would That Do?

April 23, 2013

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Across the U.S., the death penalty is on the run »

By David A. Love, February 4, 2013

The imposition of the death penalty is rife with corruption, incompetence, race and class bias and human error. Often, the innocent are killed.read more


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Proposition 34 would kill a broken death penalty »

By David A. Love, October 26, 2012

On Election Day, California voters will wrestle with the death penalty, and it’s an issue the rest of the country should also consider.read more


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Executioner’s New Song »

By Justine Sharrock, March 2012 issue

San Quentin's former warden now heads a leading anti-death-penalty group.read more


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A Courageous Governor on the Death Penalty

November 25, 2011

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Praise for Oregon’s Governor on the Death Penalty »

By Matthew Rothschild, November 25, 2011

John Kitzhaber joins former Illinois governor George Ryan and former New Mexico governor Toney Anaya in unplugging the machinery of death.read more


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Mercy in Short Supply for Troy Davis

September 22, 2011

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Let’s not execute a man based on dubious evidence »

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, September 14, 2011

The state of Georgia is preparing to execute a man whose conviction was based on several eyewitness accounts that have now been recanted.read more


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The death penalty is a human rights abuse  »

By Robert and Rachel Meeropol , October 10, 2010

Sunday, Oct. 10, is World Day Against the Death Penalty, and on this day, we urge the United States to outlaw this horrible punishment.read more


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D.C. sniper should not be executed »

By Brian Gilmore, November 8, 2009

It is premeditated murder, and that’s immoral whether an individual is doing the deed or the state is.read more


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Romell Broom and the Barbarism of the Death Penalty »

By Matthew Rothschild, September 17, 2009

The state should not be in a sadism contest.read more


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The Death Penalty Is a Sadism Contest

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Scalia Says It's OK to Execute the Innocent

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Georgia Set to Execute Man Who Very Well May Be Innocent

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