When (oh when!) will the people and government of the United States learn the basic facts of personal and national economic life? ...more

March 30, 2009

The New Mexico Legislature has voted to repeal the death penalty. ...more

March 13, 2009

After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong: Money. ...more

March 7, 2009

Ecuador's government has hired a lawyer to appeal the sentences against a citizen on Florida's death row and called again Thursday for the U.S. to return the man to the South American country. ...more

January 29, 2009

Two alleged orchestrators of the 2001 attacks on America declared their guilt on Monday in the Guantanamo war crimes court. ...more

January 19, 2009

Jamaican pastor Terrence Brown wants killers put to death - he's even offered to trade his collar for a hangman's hood to confront a crime wave that has been terrorizing his parishioners. ...more

November 12, 2008

A parolee convicted of using coat hangers to strangle a 65-year-old mentally ill man during a burglary of the victim's house was executed Thursday evening. ...more

November 7, 2008

Florida on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection procedure prompted the state to revamp the way it conducts capital punishment. ...more

July 2, 2008

A state appeals court on Friday overturned the second conviction of Michael Mordenti, who has repeatedly professed his innocence in the 1989 murder-for-hire of Thelma Royston at her Odessa ranch. ...more

February 23, 2008

A state appeals court today overturned the second conviction of Michael Mordenti, who has repeatedly professed his innocence in the 1989 murder-for-hire of Thelma Royston at her Odessa ranch. ...more

February 22, 2008