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Topic: capital punishment

A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney August 29, 2001 in Lucasville, Ohio. The state of Ohio is one of the few states that still uses the electric chair, and it gives death row inmates a choice between death by the electric chair or by lethal injection. John W. Byrd, who will be executed on September 12, 2001, has stated that he will choose the electric chair. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images)

Due process? Apparently not in Texas

Austin Sarat
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Why Biden should empty federal death row

Austin Sarat
A view of the death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility shows an electric chair and gurney August 29, 2001 in Lucasville, Ohio. The state of Ohio is one of the few states that still uses the electric chair, and it gives death row inmates a choice between death by the electric chair or by lethal injection. John W. Byrd, who will be executed on September 12, 2001, has stated that he will choose the electric chair. (Photo by Mike Simons/Getty Images)

Texas court clears way for execution

Griffin Eckstein
Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocay groups rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on September 29, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Larry French/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)

"Bizarre" SCOTUS death penalty hearing

Tatyana Tandanpolie
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The Gas Death House of Nevada, in a period photograph from 1926. (Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images)

Alabama's new plan for execution

Austin Sarat
Members of the Jewish faith gather in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue for the Shabbat on Friday evening, November 2, 2018 in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at the synagogue on Saturday morning, October 27, 2018. (Justin Merriman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Tree of Life and the death penalty

Austin Sarat
Kay Ivey and Steve Marshall (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Alabama rushing to resume executions

Austin Sarat
A sign for Unit 5 of Death Row, in a US prison, circa 1990. (Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

Alabama: We want crueler executions

Austin Sarat
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File photo of the death chamber at the Texas Department of Corrections (Getty Images/Bettmann )

Lethal injection: 40 years of failure

Austin Sarat
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Alabama halts executions; can't fix them

Austin Sarat
Police officers gather to remove activists during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the US Supreme Court January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Death penalty: Campaign issue no more

Austin Sarat
U.S. President Joe Biden | Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck a day after it was used in a terror attack in New York on November 1, 2017. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Biden against death penalty or not?

Austin Sarat
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A sign for Unit 5 of Death Row, in a US prison, circa 1990. (Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

Alabama plans to kill a man: But how?

Austin Sarat
Indiana anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp while protesting against the execution of Lisa Montgomery and two others, which are scheduled at Terre Haute Federal Prison this week. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Calls to abolish health penalty continue

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Clemency (Neon)

Woodard devastates in Death Row drama

Gary M. Kramer
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Opinions on the death penalty

Kevin O'Neal Cokley - The Conversation
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US Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on "The Justice Department's Investigation of Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 1,2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Barr: Execute mass shooters

Igor Derysh
U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Barr bringing back federal death penalty

Igor Derysh
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Getty/Yoan Valat)

Saudi beheadings: Media doesn't ask

Esha Krishnaswamy - FAIR
Lee Boyd Malvo listens to court proceedings during the trial of fellow sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad in Virginia Beach, Va., Oct. 20, 2003. (AP/Martin Smith-Rodden)

D.C. sniper's case goes to high court

Matthew Rozsa
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This undated file photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Dominique Ray. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

Muslim man executed without imam

Igor Derysh

Washington abolishes death penalty

Rachel Leah
Carey Dean Moore (Nebraska Department of Correctional Services via AP)

Fentanyl execution: A first for U.S.

Nicole Karlis
Pope Francis (AP/Denis Balibouse)

Pope Francis says no to death penalty

Matthew Rozsa
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