If you think we have abolished capital punishment, think again. We have it in large quantities — with despair doing regular service as the hangman. In one week, South records cutting down three ...

On September 10th, 2010, Cal Brown was executed by lethal injection at Washington State Penitentiary, in Walla Walla. He is likely to be the last person executed in Washington state.

Why the era of capital punishment is ending. ... To detail all the reasons it took nearly 39 years to execute Knight/Muhammad would require a chapter of a book, not a paragraph of an essay.

While capital punishment remains legal in 27 states and for the federal government ... Among the 27 states that still have the death penalty on the books, though, ...

If opponents of capital punishment were patient enough, they could just sit back and wait for it to fade away—in practice, if not on the statute books. But abolitionists try to hasten that ...

Shujaa Graham, a death row exoneree (above left), is part of a coalition challenging California’s capital punishment law at the state supreme court (Getty) ...