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Pierce lost 15 years, his marriage and the chance to see his twin boys grow up. But some fear there were others who paid even more dearly: the 11 executed defendants. The Oklahoma attorney general has temporarily shut the gate on execution of the 12 still on death row in...
Texas is not the only place where doubts about capital punishment have taken hold. Twenty of the 38 states with a death penalty have been considering moratoriums. In Congress, lawmakers just a few years ago rushed to expand the list of crimes punishable by death; now they are cosponsoring the...
If and when it goes forward, McVeigh's will be the first federal execution since 1963. Another, that of Juan Raul Garza for three drug-related murders, is set for June. Attorney General John Ashcroft says he sees no need for a moratorium. He wouldn't be the first to...
And so the last thing that anyone in the government, anyone in law enforcement and above all any of McVeigh's surviving victims could abide was anything that might give him satisfaction or lend his theories of moral equivalence a veneer of legitimacy. They wanted to take away his platform...
As human beings, we can never devise a perfect justice system. With the death penalty, however, our mistakes are permanent, and evidence found after an execution cannot help the wrongfully accused. Since 1976, 94 individuals have been released after wrongful convictions in capital cases. These miscarriages of justice�...