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Hank Skinner was scheduled to die on November 9, but his execution was halted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Will the state finally agree to test the evidence in his case?

Roars of applause for executions at the GOP debate, official approval of torture, barbaric prison conditions, obstruction of aid to storm victims and children in need—is our nation descending into barbarism?

Should we as a society act like the murderers that we punish?

After mourning, fight back by helping these four groups redouble their efforts to abolish capital punishment in the US.

In my own experience as a journalist covering this issue, the vast majority of politicians who defend capital punishment do so out of rank opportunism.

Rejecting international pleas, domestic protests and evidence that Troy Davis was innocent, the state of Georgia put him to death under a process that former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has referred to as “unconstitutional.”

There will not be justice for Troy Davis. But his case has reawakened Americans to a relic of injustice that must be abolished once and for all.

Here's my stab at a list of the top ten songs ever written in opposition to capital punishment.

Troy Davis's case is an "international human rights violation question," says Harris-Perry.

The state of Georgia is about to take part in the legal lynching of an innocent man.