Kayla Greenwood, whose father was killed by Kenneth Williams, begged the governor not to execute him.

It is a moving letter, though I denounce the idea that the state should reduce someone's punishment because that person became religious.

The governor, standing firm for the principle that the state is mercilessness, carried out the execution anyway.

Most of us will not be sentenced to death, but we could easily be hit by that immoral principle in lesser ways.

Union organizers in the right-wing southern US have to reach out to an entire community, not just the workers in a particular company.

The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo fear that the right-wing government of Argentina will cover up the 1970s murder of their children with systematic lies.

Chinese human rights lawyer Li Heping was given a suspended sentence — for a bogus crime, in a secret trial, after 2 years of imprisonment with torture.

Slavery in India is tied up in social networks that make it very difficult to put an end to.