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The appointment of a Justice Department attorney this week to flesh out Bush's order is welcome, because the current document seems incomplete in at least three respects: it does not define "terrorism," rules of evidence for a military trial are not specified and it makes what in most cases...
That the Prisons Bureau was contemplating the request reflects a growing willingness by officials to accommodate survivors who want to see for themselves the death penalty carried out. Since the 1980s, all 38 states with capital punishment, and the federal government, have made provisions for at least one family member...
Lethal injection 450 Electrocution 145 Gas chamber 11 Hanging 3 Firing squad 2
Those opposed to the death penalty saw a door open in Alabama, and they tried desperately to stick their collective foot in it. But on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the door in their faces by refusing to hear the case of death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver, whose...
The Supreme Court dashed those hopes; their decision not to hear Tarver's case sends the condemned man right back to the front of the electrocution line. But, says TIME legal writer Adam Cohen, that may not necessarily be an indication of the Court's attitude toward the death penalty...