Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment

How do we select those who will be subject to capital punishment? How do we identify the worst of the worst and decide who among them can and shoul...

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been u...

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their ...

Texas prosecutors are powerful: in cases where they seek capital punishment, the defendant is sentenced to death over ninety percent of the time. W...

As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, includin...

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. W...

It isn''t enough to celebrate the death penalty''s demise. We must learn from it.When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North ...

It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice from Confederation until 1976. The Prac...

Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective storybeautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in...