Tag: capital punishment

He’s not very good at his job.

The allure and shame of watching America’s last public hanging.

The state prepares to kill seven men this month with a soon-to-expire supply of lethal injection drugs.

Although more and more countries are abolishing capital punishment, over half the world’s population lives in four of the countries that continue to use it: India, Indonesia, China — and the United States. U.S. public opinion continues to move against the death penalty, but while some states have overturned capital punishment (or never had it), most still sentence people […]