But on the 12th anniversary of her daughter's death, she watched Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle say on TV that Mr. Ochoa and Mr. Danziger might be innocent. Another man, Achim Josef Marino, had confessed to the crime, and DNA evidence appeared to exonerate Mr.

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History of the death penalty in America

Background The Death Penalty in America Britain influenced America's use of the death penalty more than any other country did. When European settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment.

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Explanation and recognition of Juneteenth.

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It seems that 2009 might be the year that wide-scale awareness regarding the scourge that is Modern Day Slavery will be brought to light. A commentary on what Bill Clinton, the Obama Administration, and the new UN Report on Human Trafficking have to say.

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I would imagine most people think that American blacks would have a profound sense of gratitude for the 16th President whose signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, freed slaves south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Social movements that relied mainly on political power to enforce a conservative moral code weren't anywhere near as successful as those that focus on changing hearts.

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"At the Death House Door is a personal portrait of a good man's struggle with great matters. Intimate and intense, it's one of this season's most powerful TV presentations." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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Democrat Barack Obama, who would be the first black president if elected, has white ancestors who owned slaves, according to a genealogical researcher.

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Myths About the Death Penalty - Myth # 1 - Cost

This post is the first in a series on myths about the death penalty. I plan to present a series of arguments based on the best available research. For more detailed information, I urge you to browse the Death Penalty Information Center at deathpenaltyinfo.org.

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To follow one's heart, to bring one's values into the world in hopes of making it better, requires an integrity and strength of character my greatest respect and admiration is reserved for. Such courage is a rare virtue.

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Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

Monday, December 17, was International Human Rights Day. What an auspicious day for New Jersey to abolish capital punishment. As a follow up, the United Nations just passed a resolution calling for a world-wide moratorium on executions.

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"John Brown's Holy War" is PBS documentary on anatomy of an avenging angel

After meeting John Brown, the abolitionist newspaperman William Lloyd Garrison wrote, "For Brown, milquetoast abolitionism had failed; the way to destroy slavery was with principled violence -- holy war."

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In his new book, God Is Not Great, subtitled How Religion Poisons Everything, anti-theist Christopher Hitchens states, "religion makes people do wicked things they wouldn't ordinarily do . . .

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The true account of a young slave girl's life of torture and degradation galvanized Britain's abolitionist movement when it was first published in 1831.

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200 Years after Abolition: Did the Slave Trade really End? Part 2.

Cameron Doudu, the Ghanaian columnist wrote a piece in The Guardian last weekend in which he basically had a good point but managed to bury it under his poor research and bad contextualising.

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200 Years after Abolition: Did the Slave Trade really End? Part 1.

The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade has been well celebrated by the British. For them, it was a critical moment in their moral history. The celebrations in Africa have been less muted. For Africa, slavery has in many ways not ended.

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Outlawing slavery has been one of the great and distinctive accomplishments of the modern era. I suspect that many people don't fully grasp what a startling historical innovation this has been.

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Tony Blair on the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

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ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Descendants of slaves including singers, tourists and a cabinet minister were due to gather in Ghana on Sunday to mark 200 years since Britain banned slave trading.

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for a glimpse into the way our contemporary struggles over abolition are being perceived from abroad...

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A thriving commerce in human beings is taking place behind the facade of most major cities and towns in the U.S. and worldwide. Activists are pushing back, but they need reinforcements.

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Only one in 10 Britons knows when their country ended its participation in the transatlantic slave trade and almost half the population has no idea who campaigned to end it, a poll showed on Tuesday.

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Joanna Vassa and Black History Month

Every October in the UK is Black History Month; something that really took shape as a result of events run by the London Strategic Policy Unit during the African Jubilee year in 1987. There are now some 1,400 events organized, and there is a website devoted to it.

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