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Killing California's Costly Death Penalty

Tracy Oppenheimer | 7.11.2012 12:00 AM

Florida, Illinois Eliminate Commissions that Help Free Innocent, Investigate Police Torture

Scott Shackford | 6.7.2012 2:51 PM

You Can Sometimes Reduce Drug Use, if You Kill Enough People

Matthew Feeney | 5.30.2012 1:07 PM

Columbia Professor and Students Reveal Texas Justice Executed the Wrong Man in 1989

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.15.2012 10:00 PM

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.25.2012 1:30 PM

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.24.2012 8:49 PM

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Reason Staff | 4.24.2012 8:40 PM

Death Sentence Commuted Under New Anti-Race Bias Law in North Carolina

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2012 5:22 PM

Iranian Web Designer Faces Imminent Death After Judicial Swindle

Julie Ershadi | 2.18.2012 6:57 PM

Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence for Software Designer

Julie Ershadi | 2.3.2012 2:07 PM

Blago Sentenced; Deutsche Bank Bomb; Mumia Lives; New Planet, and More: Reason Evening Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.7.2011 5:28 PM

Stay of Execution Granted for Hank Skinner Pending a DNA Test

Mike Riggs | 11.7.2011 3:50 PM

Gaddafi Snuff Footage

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.20.2011 3:30 PM

Florida Lawmaker on the Death Penalty: "If it were up to me we would just throw them off the Sunshine Skyway bridge and be done with it"

Mike Riggs | 10.12.2011 12:23 PM

Reason.tv: What We Saw at the Troy Davis Protest in Washington, D.C.

Anthony Fisher | 9.22.2011 6:48 PM

How Gingrich's Love Drives Him to Kill

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 3:53 PM

Quote of the Day

Radley Balko | 3.28.2011 9:59 AM

More on the Supreme Court and DNA Testing

Radley Balko | 3.11.2011 2:18 PM

Texas Declines Compensation for Wrongly Convicted Man Who Spent 18 Years on Death Row

Radley Balko | 2.15.2011 4:25 PM

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 2.8.2011 1:46 PM

Reason Writers on the Tube: Radley Balko Talks About the Death Penalty on the Alyona Show

Reason Staff | 12.20.2010 10:09 AM

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 10.28.2010 11:50 AM

Texas Officials Continue Coverup of One Possible Wrongful Execution; Fight To Proceed With Another

Radley Balko | 10.15.2010 12:03 PM

Drug Company Declares National Death Penalty Moratorium?

Armin Rosen | 9.28.2010 3:12 PM

Federal Judge Rules That a Former Mississippi Prosecutor, Now a Judge, Lied in Court

Radley Balko | 9.14.2010 2:55 PM

Reason.tv: Filling Up Prisons Without Fighting Crime-Mark Kleiman on America's Criminal Justice System

Reason Staff | 8.26.2010 3:00 PM

Filling Up Prisons Without Fighting Crime: Mark Kleiman on America's Criminal Justice System

Reason Staff | 8.26.2010 12:45 PM

Is Ohio About to Execute an Innocent Man?

Jacob Sullum | 8.10.2010 4:06 PM

Now Playing at Reason.tv: Robert K. Elder on The Last Words of the Executed

Reason Staff | 7.12.2010 12:20 PM

Robert K. Elder on The Last Words of The Executed

Reason Staff | 7.12.2010 11:05 AM

Supreme Court Grants Cert to Hank Skinner

Radley Balko | 5.24.2010 11:56 AM

Hank Skinner Scheduled for Execution Tomorrow

Radley Balko | 3.23.2010 3:22 PM

Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?

State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.

Radley Balko | 2.22.2010 3:00 PM

American Law Institute Shifts Course on the Death Penalty

Radley Balko | 1.5.2010 8:03 AM

John Allen Muhammad And The Death Penalty Challenge

Nick Gillespie | 11.10.2009 9:44 PM

More Strange Turns in Texas' Possible Execution of an Innocent Man

Radley Balko | 10.16.2009 3:16 PM

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Sticks His Fingers in His Ears

Radley Balko | 10.2.2009 9:44 AM

So Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?

Radley Balko | 9.8.2009 10:08 AM

Experts Denounce Forensic Evidence in Texas Death Penalty Case

Radley Balko | 8.27.2009 9:17 AM

Dershowitz Corners Scalia on Death Penalty, Catholic Faith

Radley Balko | 8.20.2009 1:51 PM

This Week in Innocence

Radley Balko | 7.8.2009 11:54 AM

Reason Morning Links: Social Networking, Socialist Nicaragua, and Psychic News

Jesse Walker | 3.27.2009 9:23 AM

Reason Morning Links: Capital Markets, Capital Punishment, Capital on Stage

Jesse Walker | 3.19.2009 8:15 AM

We Are Very Concerned About the Anger We're Fomenting

Matt Welch | 3.16.2009 12:10 PM

Economic Policy by Metaphor

Matt Welch | 1.27.2009 5:14 PM

A New Year's Police Murder in San Francisco Bay Area

Brian Doherty | 1.5.2009 4:24 PM

Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Departs With an Anti-Death Penalty Flourish

Radley Balko | 12.18.2008 1:21 PM

Troy Davis Denied

Radley Balko | 10.14.2008 11:20 AM

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