death penalty
November 7, 2005 -
The editorial board of The Birmingham News, Alabama's largest newspaper, announced today in a long editorial that it's changing course and is now opposed to death sentences:
June 1, 2005 -
Today, years of battle over the death penalty will come to a head as the North Carolina House will vote on whether to pause executions for two to three years -- a move endorsed by hundreds of municipalities and organizations across the state, and across the ideological spectrum.
May 23, 2005 -
The Houston Chronicle ran an important news story yesterday, which reported the encouraging news that "Death sentences are at the lowest point since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976," including states in "the venerable Southern 'death belt."
April 14, 2005 -
In recent decades, most states have rejected electrocution, firing squads, hanging, and gas chambers as cruel and unusual, leaving lethal injection the most popular method of execution in this country.
August 1, 1998 -
The execution of Karla Faye Tucker brought the world’s attention to a state ready to kill
November 1, 1995 -
Capital Punishment is Alive and Well in the South
October 1, 1993 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 21 No. 3, "Poverty, Inc." Find more from that issue here.
