CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured

The CIA took naked photographs of people it sent to its foreign partners for torture, the Guardian can reveal. A Continue reading →

Court update: CA bans Police Review Secrecy, DOJ says Homelessness is Legal, CT bans Executions

By Robert A. Vella Here are additional key court rulings from this week: From Daily Kos – California becomes the Continue reading →

Big U.S. Supreme Court news: Rulings on EPA, Gerrymandering, Lethal Injection Drugs, BP Liability

By Robert A. Vella Today was a big news day for the U.S. Supreme Court which issued several important rulings Continue reading →

The disturbing lessons of Arizona’s un-American execution

What happened Wednesday afternoon to Joseph Wood in Arizona was a state-sponsored, judicially sanctioned human experiment that went terribly wrong. Continue reading →

Arizona execution takes nearly 2 hours

PHOENIX (AP) — A condemned murderer took nearly two hours to die and gasped for about 90 minutes during an Continue reading →

The real controversy behind Oklahoma’s botched execution

By Robert A. Vella The public furor swirling around the terribly botched execution in Oklahoma yesterday is centered on the Continue reading →

Oklahoma halts double execution after one is botched

A controversial double execution in Oklahoma was scrubbed Tuesday night after the first inmate to receive an experimental three-drug cocktail Continue reading →

Texas Won’t Say How They Killed A Man Last Night

Tommy Lynn Sells was executed Thursday night using a lethal injection drug whose source was not disclosed. Sells’ lawyers have Continue reading →