The lethal injection brought an end to the macabre executions of the past. But after a string of botched deaths, its humanity is being brought into question. Is there another option?
Tag: Questionable Convictions
The American prison system revisited
In Solitary, his new book (University of California Press) about prisons, prisoners and their keepers, Terry Allen Kupers has his eyes on readers who aren’t prisoners and who have probably rarely if ever been locked up behind bars.
Justice on Trial: from The Guardian
The Guardians’ ‘Justice on Trial’ is ongoing series that aims to highlight cases where there are major concerns of a miscarriage of justice. Since the 1980s and 90s a flow of cases has undermined public confidence in the justice system.
Justice on Trial : Highlights from The Guardian
The Guardians’ ‘Justice on Trial’ is an ongoing series that aims to highlight cases where there are major concerns of a miscarriage of justice. Since the 1980s and 90s a flow of cases has undermined public confidence in the justice system.
Justice on Trial : from The Guardian
The Guardians’ ‘Justice on Trial’ is an ongoing series that aims to highlight cases where there are major concerns of a miscarriage of justice. Since the 1980s and 90s a flow of cases has undermined public confidence in the justice system.
Free Talha Ahsan
Talha Ahsan is a British-born poet and writer with Asperger syndrome who faced extradition to America. Talha was arrested at home on 19th July 2006 pursuant to a warrant under the controversial Extradition Act 2003.
Justice for Hank Skinner
Hank Skinner, sentenced to death in Texas in 1995, is fighting to prove his innocence. Most of us believe in the principle of justice, even though we all may have differing views regarding what is and what is not just punishment.
‘Kidney sisters’ leave Mississippi prison
Two imprisoned sisters whose sentences were dropped on the condition that one donate her kidney to the other have been released from jail in Mississippi. The sisters were convicted in 1994 of taking part in a robbery that netted a mere $11 (£7).
