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Salon.com March 17, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Angels of justice Barry Scheck and Jim Dwyer talk about the Innocence Project, which has helped overturn eight wrongful convictions of death-row inmates. |
Salon.com February 8, 2000 Michael Kroll |
Executioner's swan song? Public support is weakening, but the death penalty will be slow to die. |
Salon.com September 28, 2000 Jake Tapper |
33 down George W. Bush jets in long enough to see Texas execute another prisoner -- putting him just 4 shy of his own record for the most put to death in one year. |
Salon.com August 9, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Too slow for death row? Oliver David Cruz failed seventh grade three times and couldn't pass the Army's entrance exam, but Texas says he's smart enough to be executed. |
Salon.com October 3, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Bush's big lie His "not me" excuse for the 145 executions in Texas on his watch relies on the kind of legal hairsplitting that would make the president proud... |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Trail mix: Bush and executions George W. Bush's capital punishment record doesn't pass the sniff test, according to a Chicago Tribune investigation.... |
Reason July 2001 Cathy Young |
McVeigh to Macbeth The difference between revenge, retribution, and right... |
Salon.com June 22, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
The gutless executioners Public outrage over the scheduled execution of Texas death-row inmate Gary Graham shows just how far behind our dimly lit politicians lag. |
Salon.com July 4, 2001 Alan Berlow |
A Supreme Court shocker Sandra Day O'Connor's criticisms of the death penalty couldn't have come from a more unlikely source... |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Alan Berlow |
Bush's death penalty dodge The Texas governor has issued his first reprieve in a death penalty case; the question is whether he's seen the light or is just playing politics. |
Salon.com June 12, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
What about retarded criminals? Although Bush says they shouldn't be executed, his Texas record shows otherwise, fueling the division between America and Europe over the death penalty... |
Salon.com February 24, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
Killing McVeigh Vengeance, not justice, will be televised with the execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber... |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Amy Goldwasser |
The exonerated Wrongly convicted, they sat on death row for years. Extraordinary legal measures saved their lives. A new play confronts us with their nightmares... |
Salon.com March 15, 2002 Dimitra Kessenides |
"The Execution of Wanda Jean" Director Liz Garbus talks about the death penalty and her documentary on a woman who was executed for murder... |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
Deadly lies George W. Bush and Al Gore both believe capital punishment deters violent crime. They're wrong... |
Salon.com May 12, 2001 Alicia Montgomery & Fiona Morgan |
Botched! "If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder... |
Salon.com January 2, 2001 David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
Salon.com September 14, 2000 Ashley Fantz |
Doubt on death row Despite a partisan tie vote, Tennessee convict Philip Workman faces execution, while the country faces new facts about the death penalty. |
Salon.com May 9, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
The McVeigh effect The media buzz over the white Oklahoma City bomber's execution is eclipsing the truth about federal death-row inmates: Most are black or Latino... |
Salon.com June 24, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Gore gambles on truth The vice president tells all in a fundraising investigation transcript. Plus, Bush reeling from death penalty controversy and toting Gore's book and Lazio complains of his SEC investigation |
Salon.com June 23, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Bush oversees 135th execution Texas executes death row inmate Gary Graham for 1981 killing as last-minute appeals fail. Plus, Jesse Ventura gets cozy with Gore as a new scandal looms; Will Gore be stalked by son of Starr?; Gore suffers heavy losses on "Battleground"; First lady's "Travelgate" trauma over |
Salon.com October 20, 2000 Suzy Hansen |
Inside the Texas death machine Last meals and last words are just part of the daily routine for death-row employees featured in an NPR documentary... |
Reason December 2000 Nick Gillespie |
The AWOL Electorate What we can learn from "vanishing voters": the country's general and substantial lack of interest in who becomes our next president. |
Reason February 2003 Ronald Bailey |
Guilt Tip DNA testing and justice: Voters seem to agree that if the state is going to claim the awesome power to execute murderers, it should make every effort to insure that those it kills are in fact guilty. |
Salon.com October 18, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Gored The two candidates share a podium -- but the vice president knocks Bush off center stage... |
Salon.com June 13, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Bush reaches out from the right The Texas governor succeeds with Hispanics, struggles with blacks. |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2009 Jack & Suzy Welch |
The Power of Pushback Is dissension returning to U.S. politics? We hope so: Its benefits are undeniable. |
Reason June 2000 Nick Gillespie |
Albert Agonistes What Gore's winning storyline tells us about politicians |
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt |
10th Anniversary: George Harrison's Death Here's a look at four musical greats who prove that, even in death, the beat goes on. |
Reason April 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Bush's Second Term: Our Predictions Revisited Pundits, pollsters, and professors look back at their predictions for Bush's second term in office. |
Salon.com August 29, 2002 Mark J. Miller |
A cool cowpoke gets political Steve Earle, a new disc under his belt, talks about his tumultuous career -- a hair-raising ride that has included many wives, an ugly romance with heroin, and watching a man die. |