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
View ArticleExecutioner’s New Song
By Justine Sharrock, March 2012 issue San Quentin's former warden now heads a leading anti-death-penalty group.read more
View ArticleProposition 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
View ArticleAcross 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
View ArticleThe Barbaric Lust to Execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
By Matthew Rothschild, April 23, 2013 Vengeance should not be part of our penal system.read more
View ArticleTexas Murder Spree Reaches 500
By Matthew Rothschild, June 27, 2013 See why “we must put the death penalty to death.”read more
View ArticleMy case shows need to abolish death penalty
By Kirk Bloodsworth, July 8, 2013 Almost exactly 20 years ago, I became the first death row prisoner in the United States to clear my name through DNA evidence.read more
View ArticleNorquist Tells ALEC He Wants U.S. to Revive Decapitation
By Stephen C. Webster, Dec. 30, 2013 ...In a speech about "prison reform," no less.read more
View ArticleRomell Broom and the Barbarism of the Death Penalty
By Matthew Rothschild, September 17, 2009 You want to know how barbaric the death penalty is?Ask Romell Broom.The convicted rapist and murderer was brought into the execution chamber at the Southern...
View ArticleD.C. sniper should not be executed
By Brian Gilmore, November 8, 2009 John Allen Muhammed, the infamous Washington, D.C., sniper, should not be put to death.But Muhammad will die on Nov. 10 by lethal injection. He will be executed...
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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.As the son and...
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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.The...
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Mercy in Short Supply for Troy Davis
September 22, 2011 Follow Matthew Rothschild @mattrothschild on Twitter
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