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Is one form of the death penalty more cruel and unusual than another? That's what the U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide when they hear arguments in the case of Alabama death row inmate Robert Lee Tarver. Convicted of robbery and murder in 1984, Tarver was hours from...
Ryan has been lamentably slow to recognize the death penalty's failings. One death row inmate, Anthony Porter, came within two days of his execution. When Porter was released based on evidence uncovered by a Northwestern University professor and his journalism students, the governor's spokesperson said that "the system...
"Mr. Death," Errol Morris' new film, is subtitled "The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.," a formidable label that seems to imply a sort of melodrama that, while dramatic and intensely emotional, the work never really approaches. Instead, it is the disturbing, offbeat, and darkly comic story of...
Although the action of the film is Fred's story, his "rise" to being a successful execution technologist and his "fall" to being discredited, poor, and alone, the force at work the surface is thematic examination of the man's character, and what that character represents in a broader context...
Apart from sparing Ocalan, the E.U. factor may also help the Turkish leaders who oppose the execution prevail over their ultra-nationalist coalition partners. But not without some political cost, as was underlined on Thursday when two relatives of soldiers slain by Kurdish rebels attempted self-immolation in protest against...