Elaine* spent the final 20 years of her life writing letters to 25 long-term prisoners in the U.S. prison system. Each of the 24 men and the sole woman ...

Watkins has also written an open letter to Bondi and another directed to Yost in February requesting assistance in restoring ...

This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Online petition, letters to judge seek to spare Wade Wilson from ...

If God said it, and capital punishment was meant to be an immutable law, God did not believe it because God did not follow it ...

If we cannot answer this question, how can we say the punishment fits the crime in this, or any murder case? It was my unpleasant duty to defend a first-degree murder case in Tennessee almost 50 ...

Capital punishment is vengeance rather than retribution and, as such, is a morally dubious concept The anticipatory suffering of the criminal, who may be kept on death row for many years ...

If opponents of capital punishment had to sum up their entire case in one tableau, it would be a scene showing a 19th century English pickpocket reaching for the pocket of a spectator at the ...

Oklahoma executed Wendell Grissom for a murder committed during a home invasion two decades ago. Grissom and an accomplice ...

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