Tag: capital punishment
WATCH: These Three States Voted To EXPAND The Death Penalty
According to the Pew Research Center, nationwide support for the death penalty is at a 40-year low. Twenty years ago, 71 percent of Democrats and...
New Mexico Governor Wants To Reinstate The Death Penalty (VIDEO)
If New Mexico’s Republican governor, Susana Martinez, gets her way, the state will buck national trends against executions and reinstate the death penalty, instead.
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Pfizer Just Made It A Lot Tougher To Execute People (WITH...
In the face of growing opposition to the death penalty both inside and outside this country, states have increasingly found it tougher to find...
A Whole New Level Of Corporal Punishment In Alabama?
A strange law has been proposed in Alabama that would require chemical castration for sex offenders who have committed crimes against children. Representative Steve Hurst has proposed this bill...
Did Texas Just Execute an Innocent Man? Doubt Over Guilt Remains
In October 1983, 35-year-old Lester Bower fatally shot four people with a .22 pistol in an airplane hanger in Sherman, Texas. That conclusion was...
AG Eric Holder: Moratorium On Death Penalty ‘Would Be Appropriate’
Speaking Tuesday evening to the National Press Club, Attorney General Eric Holder said he supports a moratorium on the death penalty until the Supreme...
Arizona Orders Review Following Execution That Took Almost Two Hours
Back in 1989, Joseph Wood brutally murdered his estranged girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz. By nearly all accounts, their deaths were...
‘Last Meal Restaurant’ Gives Patrons A Taste Of The Death Penalty...
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Imagine sitting at a restaurant table and being handed a menu with only five options, all of them pretty simple fare. One...
The Liberal Conservative Examines The Bill Of Rights, Part VIII
We're in the home stretch here at The Liberal Conservative's look at the United States Bill of Rights. Welcome to Part 8! Just joining...
Georgia To Review Nation’s Toughest Death Penalty Law
Even though the state of Georgia was the first state -- in 1988 -- to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled...
Death Penalty In Texas: 30 Milestones That Should Be Recognized Instead...
On June 26, the death penalty in Texas reached a milestone - the ?500th inmate was executed since reinstating capital punishment in 1982.?Kimberly McCarthy,...
How North Carolina’s Justice System Reflects America’s Racial Bias In The...
Although a majority of polled North Carolina citizens opposes the death penalty, Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed the repeal of his state's Racial Justice...
Governor Hickenlooper, Defying Colorado’s Death Enthusiasts, Blocks Execution
On May 13, I wrote a piece?attacking Rich Tosches of?The Denver Post?for openly fantasizing about the potential execution of Nathan Dunlap in a column?that...
