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July 24, 2014
Ben Crair
2014 Is Already the Worst Year in the History of Lethal Injection
Another day, another problematic execution
May 29, 2014
Ben Crair
Photos from a Botched Lethal Injection
An exclusive look at what happens when an execution goes badly
May 28, 2014
Alice Robb
IQ Scores Shouldn't Be A Matter of Life or Death
May 28, 2014
David R. Dow
The Supreme Court's Empty Defense of the Intellectually Disabled
States ignored a prior ruling outlawing executions—and the justices let them get away with it
May 15, 2014
Lane Florsheim
How Texas Keeps Putting the Intellectually Disabled on Death Row
The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional but gave states wiggle room
May 9, 2014
Lane Florsheim
Don't Trust Oklahoma's Death Penalty Panel
State reviews of executions are usually shams
May 5, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
The Three-Drug Death Penalty Cocktail is a Mess
May 2, 2014
Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard
Botched Executions Have Never Swayed Public Opinion. This Time Could Be Different.
April 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
Another Reason to Be Outraged About the Botched Execution: The Oklahoma Governor’s Response
April 30, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Clayton Lockett's Botched Execution Adds Credibility to Court Fight Over Drug Secrecy
April 30, 2014
Ben Crair
Cruel But Not Unusual
How Oklahoma botched Clayton Lockett's execution
January 14, 2014
Ian Steadman
Prisons Are Now Using Scary, Untested Drugs to Execute Death Row Inmates
Unintended consequences of a boycott
October 30, 2013
Jennifer Kirby
Death Penalty Support vs. Violent Crime: Two Graphs With Very Similar Arcs
October 22, 2013
Clare Algar
Big Pharma May Help End the Death Penalty
Boycotts don't work against Texas executioners. But they could hurt pharmaceutical firms that make execution drugs.
October 15, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
Take the World War II Memorial—Please!
When the government reopens, shut this stuff down
March 18, 2013
Lydia DePillis
Not Dead Yet
At CPAC, conservatives consider opposing capital punishment
August 26, 1957
Reinhold Niebuhr
Justice and the Death Penalty

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