Tag Archives: death penalty

Jeff Sessions' latest memo pushes prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug dealers, including the ability of the government to execute owners of completely legal marijuana businesses. Seriously.

Instead of looking at the science and data on how to beat the opioid crisis, Trump is following the lead of Saudi Arabi whose plan of killing people for selling drugs has done nothing to deter use.

Despite being ranked in the bottom 10 countries in the world in women's rights, Saudi Arabia was just elected to the UN's women's rights commission.

On this day in 1862, the US government conducted the largest public execution in history — after sentencing 38 Dakota men to death following unfair trials.

Death row inmate Richard Glossip, scheduled to die by lethal injection at 3 p.m. today, has been granted a stay of execution.

Even former police officers are speaking out against the implications associated with this automatic death sentence doled out by the state.

Despite Eighth Amendment protections and US Supreme Court rulings, state puts mentally disabled man to death.