Publications & Testimony

By CHARLES LANE Washington Post Staff Writer The Washington…

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Smaller Arizona Counties Lack Resources for…

Pakistani President Musharraf announced on December 13 that he will com­mute the death sen­tences of approx­i­mate­ly 100 young offend­ers to life impris­on­ment. (Amnesty International,…

Kentucky Governor Supports Ban on Executing…

The fol­low­ing excerpts are from the death penal­ty chap­ter of the Final Report of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System. The blue-rib­bon Committee, appoint­ed in 1999, used a wide vari­ety of sources to draw its con­clu­sions and for­mu­late the recommendations found…

The lat­est edi­tion of the Angolite, pub­lished by the inmates at the Louisiana state pen­i­ten­tiary, con­tains arti­cles about the death penal­ty, includ­ing the cov­er sto­ry on a new movie,​“Monsters Ball,” which was filmed at Angola ear­li­er this year and will star Sean​“Puffy” Combs, Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, and Heath Ledger. (The Angolite,…

Written in the spir­it of​“Dead Man Walking,” this book by Antoinette Bosco con­veys both the pow­er­ful per­son­al expe­ri­ence of a moth­er whose son was mur­dered and a wealth of infor­ma­tion about the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem in America. (Orbis Books, 2001) For more infor­ma­tion, or to read an excerpt, visit her…