Strange convergence: Billie Holiday and Ethel Rosenberg at 100
They were each born into poverty six months and a hundred miles apart.
Mumia win a victory for democracy
A huge victory occurred yesterday with announcement of the defeat of efforts to execute journalist and activist Mumia Abu Jamal.
Troy Davis is laid to rest
Om Saturday, October 1, thousands joined in to celebrate Troy Davis' life at the Jonesville Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., and tens of thousands more joined online through the webstream
Troy Davis and the new abolitionists
In the fight to save Troy Davis's life, a new abolitionist movement is born.
Death penalty, shot through with racism, cannot be fixed
Justice John Paul Stevens say capital punishment is "shot through with racism, skewed toward conviction, infected with politics and tinged with hysteria." It's past time to end the practice.
Texas execution could end death penalty, if we act
Texas put to death an innocent man. It can be the beginning of the end of the death penalty, if we act.
