Friday, October 16, 2026

Tag: death penalty

“River of Fire”: In new memoir, Sister Helen Prejean reflects on...

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to resume the death penalty after a more than 15-year moratorium. This week Attorney...

The time of suffering

Bill Moyers reflects on the culture of cruelty in American politics.

Mississippi passes bill to legalize death by firing squad as lethal...

Of the 33 states with the death penalty, only Oklahoma and Utah allow for execution by firing squad.

Modest wins for minimum wage, huge gains for marijuana legalization amid...

It was an otherwise bright spot for left-leaning voters, on a night punctuated by shocking Republican gains.

New Mexico House Votes to Reinstate the Death Penalty

This Republican-sponsored House Bill would authoriz the death penalty in cases involving the murder of a child or law enforcement officer.

America’s Criminal Injustice System

Is our justice system broken? More and more people are taking plea bargains for fear of longer sentences, even in cases where they are not guilty.

Republican Lawmakers In Utah Just Voted To Repeal The Death Penalty

"Government shouldn’t be in the business of killing. It’s not our place."

Capital Punishment? A Dead Policy Walking

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, even though there were no eyewitnesses, nor fingerprints. Was he a victim of bias and racism?

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The Zone of Interest at the Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Canal22 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

30 Months After Uproar Over Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech, What Do His Pro-Israel Denouncers...

Ten signers of a 2024 open letter condemning the director’s Academy Awards speech told the author whether their views have changed since.
Clinton Street in Iowa City, Iowa. Photo: Billwhittaker / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iowa hospital custodian deported to Sierra Leone before judge ruled on stay request, advocates...

Fatou Traore held a 2011 order barring removal to her home country. Co-workers, her congresswoman and three bishops had asked for her release.

America’s Broken Promises, Iran’s Resolve, and the dangerous Game over the Strait of Hormuz

Iran is telling Washington that the age of expecting automatic concessions in exchange for ambiguous promises is over.
Solar cells and wind turbines at the Technical University of Łódź. Photo: Zorro2212 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...

Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025
A guillotine on display in Luxembourg. Photo: Christian Ries / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

If Trumpism descends to grisly entertainment, why not hangings, guillotines, hungry lions, even burning...

Ready, Aim, Fire! with the latest culture of death stunt politics.