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Topic: Executions

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

Alabama rushing to resume executions

Austin Sarat
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump preps for more American carnage

Heather Digby Parton
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
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
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Getty/Yoan Valat)

Saudi beheadings: Media doesn't ask

Esha Krishnaswamy - FAIR
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
Keith Leroy Tharpe (AP/Georgia Department of Corrections)

SCOTUS saves Keith Tharpe from execution

Sophia Tesfaye
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Protesters gather outside the state Capitol building on April 14, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP/Kelly P. Kissel)

Arkansas' planned murder spree

Bob Cesca
The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal injection. (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Executions at 25-year high

Antoaneta Roussi
Hillary Clinton (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Hillary's death penalty shame

Paul Blest
(Reuters/Toby Melville)

"Monstrous injustice"

Ben Norton
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Rick Perry (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

Our vicious cycle of murder

Omer Aziz
This undated photo provided by the vkontakte website shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP)

Our death-penalty blindness

Paul Campos
(Reuters/AP/Jim Young/Dave Tulis/Nati Harnik)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Dzhokar Tsarnaev (FBI)

Rightwing execution bloodlust

Matthew Rozsa
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This undated photo provided by the vkontakte website shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP)

Death penalty's dark morality

"Flame covered his whole head"

Austin Sarat
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Natasha Lennard
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Natasha Lennard
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Natasha Lennard
Dira "chop-chop" Square in Riyadh (via Wikipedia)

Alex Halperin

Natasha Lennard
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