Lethal injections and the tragedy of America’s execution addiction (video)

It began in Utah back in 1977. On January 17 of that year, Gary Gilmore became the first man to be executed in the US for more than a decade, ending a national moratorium on the death penalty. Gilmore, guilty …

It’s expensive, kills the innocent and doesn’t deter crime – it’s time to end the capital punishment debate (video)

The announcement earlier this year that a 78-year-old man was to be paroled after serving 48 years of a 30-year sentence caused an outcry – most loudly and unedifyingly from the knee-jerk ridden right-wing media.  As the man in question …