A t precisely 12: 02 am on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1962, Arthur Lucas and Ro-nald Turpin-
hooded, handcuffed, legs strapped togeth-er, standing back to back plummeted through the …

Bill Domm ith the recent introduction of a motion for a free vote on the reinstatement of
capital punishment in Canada, Parliament has moved to address an issue of great …

An unheralded, almost unmentionable moratorium on executions all over the United States
has been slowly and unbelievably ticking onward since June 1967. Soon it may be three …

In 1940, then United States Attorney General Robert H. Jackson stated," The prosecutor has
more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America."'" It's local …

Events of recent months--in particular, the execution of Timothy McVeigh and, just prior to it,
public airing for the first time of audio tapes of executions in Georgia--have focused attention …

Among the many bills which failed to pass the last session of the General Assembly was one
(House BUI No. 229) which called for the abolition of capital punishment in the State of …

* To preserve the style of the speaker, this address has been published in essentially the
same form in which it was given.** Helen Prejean, CSJ, is a writer, lecturer, and community …

We, the members of the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Capital Punishment, hereby
submit our final report and recommendations to Governor Mitt Romney. In this report, we …

by Evelle J. Younger• Judge of the Municipal Court of Los Angeles m Capital punishment is
older than recorded history, and it was apparently accepted without question for many …

A little more than one hundred years ago, in 1909 (the same year as the founding
conference for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology'), the US Supreme Court held its …