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Arts, Culture & Media
Song for Wuornos
Asa Hutchinson
Justice
A federal judge halts six executions in Arkansas, citing ‘cruel and unusual punishment’
Jacques Fesch was arrested in Paris on February 25, 1954 after having committed a hold-up at a currency exchange stand. While fleeing the scene, he killed a policeman and wounded three persons.
Belief
Jacques Fesch killed a cop in the 1950s. Here’s why the French Catholic Church wants to make him a saint.
The execution chamber at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence is shown.
Conflict
A former executioner has become a leading advocate for ending the death penalty
An inmate stands against a fence at the Adjustment Center yard during a media tour of California's death row at San Quentin State Prison, California, December 2015.
Justice
2015 saw the highest number of recorded death-row executions. Which country tops the list?
Inmates wait before they are released from Thanh Xuan prison outside Hanoi on Aug. 29, 2010.
Justice
Here’s one way to escape death row in Vietnam: Get pregnant
The death chamber at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas is seen through steel bars from the viewing room.
Justice
Prisons enter a sketchy world to obtain drugs to kill death row inmates
President Barack Obama talks to Cardinal Sean O'Malley during an interfaith memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013.
Belief
Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?
Israel's Ofer Prison, located near Jerusalem.
Justice
Why Israeli courts refuse the death penalty for terrorists
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is shown in a courtroom sketch on the first day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 5, 2015.
Justice
Massachusetts isn’t OK with the death penalty, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s jurors had to be
Global Politics
VIDEO: Penn State’s football program dealt severe penalties for Jerry Sandusky scandal