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Infographic: Changing Attitudes About the Death Penalty

More than 60 percent of Americans support the death penalty, a slight decline over the past 15 years.

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Weighing the Death Penalty vs. Life Without Parole

What's worse—Death? Life in prison? Life after prison?

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Capital Stupidity: The Death Penalty Costs California $300 Million Per Execution

Not only is the death penalty racist, classist, and ultra-violent, a new study says it's tremendously wasteful, too.

Slideshow: Last Suppers Last Suppers: James Reynolds' Photographs of Death Row Inmates Final Meals

The death penalty was reinstated 34 years ago this week. To mark the date, we look at a photo series of last meal requests from death row inmates.

Transparency: The Death Penalty Around the World

Last week, Michael Rosales, who murdered 67-year-old Mary Felder in 1997, became the thirteenth person executed this year-in Texas. Whether or...

Hard Time

GOOD and Open represent the 1,125 long years innocent people have spent on death row.