Selected Articles

Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump’s Moves to Ramp Up Executions - DN! 27.04.26 514553
Trump administration to prioritise seeking death penalty, use firing squads - Al Jazeera 24.04.26 514578
Amid Global Calls to End Capital Punishment, US Set to Execute 7 Men This Month - CD 10.10.25 494259
America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die - Guardian 11.03.25 460489
Florida and Texas execute intellectually disabled death row inmates - WSWS 14.02.25 457348
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda - WSWS 09.02.25 457225
Reviving The Death Penalty Is One Of Trump’s Greatest Moral Failures - Pressenza 08.02.25 457255
Trump seizes on Biden commutations to pledge resumption of federal executions - WSWS 27.12.24 447747
Video: “Conscience into Action”: Biden Commutes 37 Federal Death Row Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Second Term - DN! 24.12.24 447772
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row - Reuters 23.12.24 447326
Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates - Guardian 23.12.24 446941
Video: Executions - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 11.04.24 414345
Amid the lingering trauma of Trump's executions, a new project brings families to Federal death row - Intercept 11.02.24 399536
Pressure Builds for Louisiana Governor to Grant 'Historic' Mass Appeal for Death Row Clemency - CD 03.08.23 365237
Sister Helen Prejean on Richard Glossip’s Stay of Execution: I Believe He Will Walk Out a Free Man - DN! 08.05.23 346439
Richard Glossip Gets Stay of Execution From US Supreme Court - CD 05.05.23 346411
The death penalty, deadlines, and DNA - Intercept 15.02.23 330411
Death in the USA — a botched experimental execution - Al Jazeera 23.09.22 306928
US supreme court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber - Guardian 04.03.22 275504
'A Human Experiment': John Marion Grant Convulsed, Vomited at Oklahoma Execution - Common Dreams 29.10.21 259688
With lethal injections harder to come by, some states are turning to firing squads - NPR 19.05.21 244741
US civil rights groups call on Biden to end federal executions - Al Jazeera 09.02.21 234783
Lisa Montgomery: Judge halts execution of only woman on US death row - BBC 12.01.21 231667
The death penalty's other victims - Intercept 26.12.20 229802
How Biden can end Trump’s macabre execution spree - American Prospect 22.12.20 229724
Trump plan to revive the gallows, electric chair, gas chamber and firing squad recalls a troubled history - Alter Net 14.12.20 229295
Trump administration’s state-sponsored killing spree continues with two more federal executions - WSWS 12.12.20 228039
'Abolish the death penalty': Brandon Bernard execution prompts wave of anger - Guardian 11.12.20 227862
In Trump’s final days, a rush of federal executions - BBC 11.12.20 229263
George Gascón implements sweeping changes to Los Angeles District Attorney's office - NPR 08.12.20 229267
Trump is showing us why the death penalty needs to die - Rolling Stone 02.12.20 229264
Poison gas, firing squads: US approves more execution methods - Al Jazeera 28.11.20 229265
U.S. resets execution date for only woman on federal death row - Reuters 24.11.20 229266
'A disgrace': Trump's DOJ schedules three more federal executions in days before anti-death penalty Biden takes office - CD 21.11.20 225251
How COVID-19 is impacting the first scheduled federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years - Time 20.11.20 229269
Trump set to execute more inmates than any other president - with more due before Biden takes office - Independent 11.11.20 229273
The death penalty isolates America - Foreign Affairs 16.09.20 229270
Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity - AP News 15.09.20 229272
The Trump administration is on a capital punishment killing spree - The Nation 17.07.20 229277
How the Trump administration secured a secret supply of execution drugs - Reuters 10.07.20 229274
American conservatives are pushing for the repeal of the death penalty - The Economists 02.07.20 229276
Why the fight for racial justice in the US requires the abolition of the death penalty - The Conversation 23.06.20 229268
Federal executions set to resume after nearly 2-decade hiatus - NPR 15.06.20 209963
Death penalty in 2019: Facts and figures - Amnesty 21.04.20 229271
Death penalty in US: Which states still have it and how common is lethal injection? - Independent 06.03.20 229275
Willie Jerome Manning and the Death Penalty - Counterpunch 5/13 179591
The United States Tortures Before It Kills - CCR 10/11 179594
Head Shots - New Yorker 9/09 179595
Ideas & Trends; A Role Model for Executions - NY Times 1/00 179598
Implementation of the death penalty in the United States of America: A Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Gas Chamber - Human Rights Centre Blog Essex Univi 03.09.22 306007
The Gender Gap in Attitudes toward Capital Punishment and Life without Parole (LWOP) in Kentucky - Taylor & francis online 06.10.22 309181