Over the past year, scores of news stories have told of Black men across the country convicted of horrific crimes and sentenced to die; only to be freed--often decades later--by DNA evidence, eyewitness testimonies or revelations of legal bungling. The shoddy state...

More than 100 years ago, the religious community now known as the Basilian Fathers of Toronto, planted itself in Texas, its first foray into the United States. Since then, the presence of the congregation has grown to include a university, a high school...

Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that officials botched the insertion of the needles during the execution of a convicted killer earlier this week.The execution took 34 minutes _ twice as long as normal _ because officials...

To the very end, convicted killer Larry Griffin shouted his innocence to the world _ through court filings, in pleas to the governor and to nearly any reporter willing to listen.None of it helped. Griffin, strapped to a white gurney, was executed by injection.Now, 12...

“Regardless of their views on the moral or practical value of capital punishment, many Americans are now questioning the accuracy of convictions that lead to death sentences.” —Facts On File News Service In 1982, nineteen-year-old...