Tag: capital punishment
Salar Abdoh: A Hanging at the House of Artists
February 2013The public execution of two petty thieves sends a message to Tehran’s artists and intellectuals. A dispatch from the gallows.
Casey Michel: California’s Death Penalty Decision
November 2012Those in favor of ending capital punishment in California have dramatically outspent their opponents and gathered celebrity endorsements from Joan Baez to Bill O’Reilly, but the race is too close to call. How one notorious criminal might swing the vote on Prop 34.
