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Tabloid Promotes Lynching of Homosexuals in Uganda
On October 2, a tabloid called the ‘Rolling Stone’ published an incendiary article claiming that homosexuals were going to raid the schools and “recruit 100,000 innocent kids by 2012”. The…
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Obama: India Ain't Just About Gandhi and Outsourcing
As an Indian-American, anytime the US President visits India, I get excited about the possibilities of a stronger relationship between the two gigantic countries. And, tomorrow, US President Barack Obama is…
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Executions, Secrecy and the Public Right to Know
Voices of dissent are routinely silenced in oppressive regimes around the world. However, some of the same tactics are used in the United States to suppress information about the death…
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Keeping Maternal Mortality on the Agenda at UN Human Rights Meeting
Linda Coale died of a blood clot a week after giving birth to her son, Ben, by c-section. The infant welcome packet included extensive information about acclimatizing pets to a…
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Scent Lineup Not Necessary as Texas Prosecutors Declare Anthony Graves Innocent
Last year, Texas prosecutors wanted to use a “scent lineup” in a desperate attempt to generate new evidence against Anthony Graves, whose death sentence had been overturned in 2006. “Scent…
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Arizona: Execution Drugs Came From Great Britain
Arizona’s Attorney General Terry Goddard has reportedly confirmed that his state’s stash of non-FDA approved sodium thiopental came from Great Britain. The state continues to try to kill Jeffrey Landrigan…
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Court Allows Arizona to Kill Prisoner with Secret Drugs
Secretly trafficking and then openly using unapproved drugs is now A-OK. That’s the message sent out yesterday by the Arizona Supreme Court, which allowed state officials to conceal their source…
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Arizona's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy for Executions
Arizona today admitted that it acquired the execution drug sodium thiopental from a non-FDA approved source, but continues to seek to execute Jeffrey Landrigan on October 26. The state refuses…
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9 Out of 10 Counties, Zero Death Sentences Since 2004
What makes a punishment "unusual?" The 8th Amendment to the Constitution bans "cruel and unusual" punishments, and the Supreme Court in recent years has suggested that a punishment becomes unusual…
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Are States Breaking the Law to Get Execution Drugs?
States may be illegally procuring the drugs needed to continue to kill prisoners among a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental.
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Fighting Crime Without the Death Penalty
“Bizarre.” This was the answer given by Former Detective Superintendent Bob Denmark of Lancashire, England when asked what people in the UK thought about the execution of Teresa Lewis. “[People] are…
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Three Supreme Court Justices Later Regretted Supporting the Death Penalty
Three out of the seven Supreme Court justices who voted to reinstate the death penalty in 1976 have since said they regretted those votes and, if given a do over,…