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The Death Penalty: Racist, Classist and Unfair? Some two-thirds of Americans support the death penalty, but few are forced to confront it on a daily basis. As an appellate lawyer in Texas — which leads the U.S. in executions — David Dow has represented more than 100 death-row inmates over the past two decades. In The Autobiography of an Execution, he recounts what it's like to do the job and then come home to his family and his dog. He talked to ...

D.C. sniper's execution
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 15:16
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Families of D.C. Sniper Victims Celebrate Muhammad's Death According to the NY Daily News the families of the victims of the D.C. Sniper were happy to see him go. "I feel better. I think I can breathe better," Nelson Rivera, whose wife Ann was gunned down as she vacuumed her van at a Maryland gas station in 2002 said. He watched the execut ...

D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad Dies By Execution Relatives on the people John Allen Muhammad and his accomplice killed in 2002 sniper attacks looked on Tuesday as Muhammad was put to death by lethal injection in Virginia. Muhammad, 48, directed the string of murders in the Washington, D.C., region and had been suspected in shootings in additional states. ...

Death Penalty Sucking Away California's Dollars According to CNN, California has 678 inmates on death row, making the nation's largest death row population, yet the state has not executed anyone in four years. However, it spends more than $130 million a year on its capital punishment system, according to a new report that claims states are wasting millions on an inefficient death penalty system, ...

Did Texas Gov. Rick Perry knowingly kill an innocent man? Did Gov. Rick Perry knowingly execute an innocent man just to save face? ...