The Hit Farm

22, 1991, during his trial in the shooting death of an off-duty police officer, Mark MacPhail. But it is hardly the last word on the case, or in the national debate over the death penalty. The finality of Mr. Davis's sentence, and the outpouring of No member of the court currently believes that the death [...]

A group of independent United Nations human rights experts has condemned the execution of a teenager carried out yesterday by Iranian authorities, and called once again for an immediate halt to the country's use of the death penalty. photo credit: Amnesty International At a recent debate for Republican presidential candidates, Texas Governor Rick Perry was [...]

Our show last night was one of anticipation, as we waited for the U.S. Supreme Court to give the state of Georgia a pass to kill an inmate whose murder conviction was plagued by doubt and a remarkable lack of evidence. By David Jackson, USA TODAY One of the interesting things about the Troy Davis [...]

Last night, the death penalty was hard at work, and two men — Troy Davis and Lawrence Russell Brewer — were put to death. Can one act be right and the other wrong? By AP ANNAPOLIS, Md. — An Anne Arundel County judge has ruled that the trial of a prisoner charged with killing a [...]

The other is that the death penalty is a human rights violation, no matter who it is carried out on – even the Brewers of this world, no matter how certain the conviction or unpalatable the crime. Anyone who has been the victim of any kind of crime The death penalty is a very controversial [...]