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Topic: Death Penalty (page 4)

Aurora theater mass shooter James Holmes, who was convicted on July 16, 2015, appears in court, in Centennial, Colo. Even if Holmes is sentenced to death, he could spend much of the rest of his life in prison awaiting execution. Colorado has executed only one person in the last forty years. (AP)

Stop executing mentally ill

Martha Elliott
(AP/Amber Hunt)

Matthew Rozsa - The Daily Dot
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits in federal court in Boston for a final hearing before his trial begins in January. On Friday, May 15, 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 2013 Boston Marathon terror attack. (AP/Jane Flavell Collins)

Tsarnaev sentenced to death

The Associated Press
(AP/Reuters/Alonzo Adams/Stefano Rellandini/Mary Altaffer)

GOP vs. the Pope

Katie McDonough
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Rick Perry (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

America's barbaric horror

Simon Maloy
(AP)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush (Reuters/AP/Sara Stathas/Kevin Lamarque/Stephan Savoia/David Manning)

GOP's "pro-life" hypocrisy

Katie McDonough
(ABC News)

Joanna Rothkopf
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This undated photo provided by the vkontakte website shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP)

Our death-penalty blindness

Paul Campos
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (AP)

Tsarnaev gets death penalty

Jenny Kutner
Anthony Ray Hinton (AP/Hal Yeager)

"Death row is a second hell"

Manny Otiko
Timothy McVeigh, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (AP/David Longstreath)

"This is life row"

Mario Marazziti
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James Holmes (AP/RJ Sangosti)

What's justice for Aurora?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Sue Ogrocki)

"An idea whose time has come"

Elias Isquith
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Proposal: Kill the gays

Bryn Lovitt
Texas Death Row inmate Rodney Reed; Rick Perry (AP/Mark Thiessen)

Abolish the death penalty!

John Avignone
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(AP)

OK to consider gas chambers

Joanna Rothkopf
(PBS)

The progressive executive

Luke Brinker
Rick Perry (AP/Kathy Willens)

Perry's lethal legacy

Luke Brinker
Scott Panetti (AP/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

Panetti gets a stay

Luke Brinker
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Rick Perry (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Rick Perry's Nixon moment

Heather Digby Parton
Scott Panetti (KXAN)

"A mockery"

Luke Brinker
Scott Panetti (AP/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

Texas' deranged "justice"

Rob Smith, Charles Ogletree
(AP)

Joanna Rothkopf
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