Capital Punishment Articles

Hampton Roads Daily Press - Is execution by injection humane, or horrible? The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing how most states carry out capital punishment, which could delay Va. proceedings. By Peter Dujardin 247-4749 October 22, 2007

Kansas City Star - A state-by-state look at the status of capital punishment. Ala. - Choice of lethal injection or electrocution. Alaska - No death penalty. Ariz. - Lethal injection with a choice of lethal gas for those sentenced before November 1992. Ark. - Lethal ...

ABC News - ... to death row for pulling a trigger -- would make us think twice about committing these crimes. Yet these consequences don't factor into the decisions of many, which has many experts questioning such deterrents as drug testing and capital punishment.

HULIQ.com - According to a 2005 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, 56 percent of inmates sentenced to death are white and 42 percent are black. Such numbers may lead observers to believe race no longer plays a role in capital punishment , but that is far ...

Newsday - In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors said Stinnett's killing and mutilation is the kind of crime for which capital punishment is intended. "The death penalty is reserved for the worst crime," federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark told the jury ...

Boston Globe - The rape and murder of his 10-year-old son a decade ago brought the state to the brink of reinstating the death penalty, but yesterday Robert Curley led an impassioned opposition to a capital punishment bill. After the killing of his son Jeffery in ...

International Herald Tribune - The highest annual total was 98 in 1999, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment. In 2007, 42 people have been executed. Texas, where 26 prisoners have been put to death this year, plans no more executions in ...

wnbc.com - Two men who have been exonerated for murder are using their experience to speak out against the use of capital punishment. Jeffrey Deskovic spent 16 years in prison for the 1989 murder of a Peekskill High School classmate. Douglas Warney spent a ...

Quad-Cities Times - Ellen Goodman’s column “Tinker all you want, capital punishment is still inhumane” (Oct. 13) forgets the real victims, the victims of murder. How does she think they died? Did they die with excruciating pain as they were stabbed, shot or beaten ...

Chicago Tribune - Its government, like many in the world, is critical of capital punishment in the United States. Mexico claimed that Medellin and 50 other Mexican nationals on Death Row in the U.S. had been denied their right to consult with its consulate, where ...