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  • The Death penalty is a controversial topic with which many people disagree.

  • Advocates say it's valuable as a deterrent or as simple justice, and cheaper than lifetime prison terms.

  • University of Richmond law professor said the public is gradually learning that lethal injection is not a humane form of death.

  • The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of 64-year-old Keith Edmund Gavin, who in 1998 killed a delivery driver withdrawing cash from an ATM.

  • Indiana’s death penalty law exists in name only.

  • Williams was convicted of paying mother-of-the-year Kristen Siple $2,500 to rape and sodomize her daughter.

  • District Attorney Jeff Rosen is free to disagree with courts’ decisions but his responsibilities are defined by the law.

  • An anti-death penalty organization released a scathing report regarding the pattern of botched lethal injection executions in the United States.

  • (RNS) — I have worked with the condemned in the South since 1975.

  • A jury has begun to hear evidence in the capital murder case in which a mother and her 10-year-old daughter were slain in east Fort Worth.

  • Indiana’s death penalty law exists in name only.