Death penalty

Illinois: One pen away from abolishing the death penalty

January 14, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Lawmakers are poised to make Illinois the first state to end capital punishment since 2009.

Illinois House moves to abolish death penalty

January 7, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

CHICAGO - In a landmark vote Jan. 6, the Illinois House passed a measure to abolish the death penalty in the state.

California’s new top cop is “on the people’s side”

December 6, 2010 By People’s World

Kamala Harris vows to insure "the law of this state is on the side of the people."

Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed

December 6, 2010 By Jarvis Tyner

Justice John Paul Stevens say capital punishment is "shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria." It's past time to end the practice.

Death Row inmate Troy Davis faces execution, again

August 26, 2010 By Joe Sims

Troy Davis, an African American man on Georgia's death row, faces execution, again, after a federal judge ruled yesterday, Aug. 25, in a Supreme Court ordered appeal.