Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
Tag: Alabama
9th Week of Forced-Labor Stoppage in Alabama Prison
Natalia Marques reports on incarcerated organizers in St. Clair prison led by the Free Alabama Movement who are refusing to engage in prison labor.
US Has a Power Disconnection Crisis
Utilities can shut off electricity for an alarming number of Americans for nonpayment in a heat wave, write Sanya Carley and David Konisky.
4 US States Vote to Ban Forced Prison Labor
A similar effort to ban forced convict labor in Louisiana was soundly defeated with roughly two-thirds voting against.
US Supreme Court May Legalize Election Theft
Marjorie Cohn warns that the rightward-veering Supreme Court may continue demolishing the Voting Rights Act.
Roy Moore and the Triumph of Partisanship
Partisanship has reached such extremes in U.S. politics that Republicans are prepared to brush aside multiple allegations that Roy Moore preyed on teen-age girls to keep a Democrat from winning in Alabama, writes Michael Winship.