Cases and articles

If the USA's capital justice system was a private company it would have been shut down long ago. After three decades, this is an enterprise showing no measurable benefit for society despite an investment of billions of dollars. On the cost side have been multiple errors and inconsistencies, racism, cruelty and damage to the national image abroad. This business may repeatedly be making a killing, but it is operating at a huge loss, and has been from the outset.

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S half brother and former chief judge have been hanged in a gruesome execution before dawn today.

The Iraqi government said Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, the former head of the country's feared secret police, was decapitated during the hanging.

Number of condemned at lowest point for 30 years as opinion begins to change

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Wednesday January 10, 2007
The Guardian

Six scheduled for January executions, four of which are in Texas

Six men on death row have scheduled executions for January, four of which are in Texas. One of these men has been on death row longer than any other death row inmate. Another suffered severe beatings from his father during childhood.