All posts tagged "Capital Punishment"

Lawyers for a Black man serving life in prison in Alabama are seeking to overturn his conviction for the murder of a white woman, citing evidence his state-provided attorney was active in the Ku Klux Klan.

“Was he well positioned to represent a Black man?” one investigator asked.

“I think the answer is no.”...

Since the 1970s, abortion providers have been the target for arson and bombings by the very people who claim they value life at the moment of conception. The latest example of their hypocritical ideology happened in Pullman, Washington, where a Planned Parenthood clinic was set ablaze at 3:30 AM on a Friday morning.

Support for the death penalty is at a four-decade low in the United States, though most Americans -- three out of five -- still favor it, a new Gallup poll out Tuesday found.

A judge sentenced four men to death Friday for the fatal gang rape of an Indian student on a bus last December, triggering applause inside the packed courtroom.

WASHINGTON — Scientific research to date provides no useful conclusion on whether the death penalty reduces or boosts the murder rate, said a report by the US National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.