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Too late to stop the hangman? Missouri is determined to execute Joseph Amrine for murder even though every prosecution witness and the jury foreman now say he's innocent and new witnesses point to another man. Why? A federal law says the evidence came in too late.
By Dave Lindorff [02/20/02]

Are you ready to dance on Osama's grave? The apparent architect of our worst nightmare is seen celebrating our losses. Will we do the same when he comes to a violent end?
By Gawain Charlton-Perrin [12/14/01]

Executioner's song The ravaged lives of two men hired to pull the switch testify to the hidden costs of America's death penalty.
By Paul Festa [12/04/01]

The mind of a killer A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
By Suzy Hansen [07/27/01]

Killing as "closure" John Ashcroft says the closed-circuit TV broadcast of Timothy McVeigh's execution will help victims heal. But will what they see look too brutal -- or not brutal enough?
By Kerry Lauerman [04/15/01]

An innocent Texas inmate is freed But if George W. Bush's office had not ignored a murder confession and DNA evidence, Christopher Ochoa might have been freed much sooner.
By Salon Staff [01/17/01]

Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson [01/12/01]

The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants.
By David Lindorff [01/02/01]

Janet Reno's fatal decision The attorney general must soon decide whether to try to save a possibly innocent man from the electric chair -- or leave the case for an incoming administration unlikely to do so.
By Alan Berlow [12/22/00]

One last debate Salon's young readers make Bush and Gore answer questions that Jim Lehrer neglected to ask.
[11/06/00]

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