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Wiretap: Another botched execution

  It was another botched execution - this time in Arizona. It took nearly two hours for murderer Joseph Wood to die. As in the...

Littwin: The rush to more botched executions

Now we can understand why John Hickenlooper decided to grant Nathan Dunlap his temporary reprieve last year.

Wiretap: The mom pay gap is real

Wage discrimination is happening and it particularly affects women with children and women of color.

The Lockett Effect

By most accounts, Oklahoma’s execution of Clayton Lockett on Tuesday was a medical, legal and moral fiasco.

Troubled capital punishment process ends in prolonged, groaning death

We had been warned that the execution of Clayton Lockett, a convicted murderer and rapist who had shot his 19-year-old victim and ordered a friend to bury her alive, would take longer than usual.

Wiretap: Another horrific botched execution

The state of Oklahoma had finally gotten its way and was about to complete the first of two executions when everything went wrong.