On the night executioners killed Joseph Corcoran, a glowing inflatable snowman stood on the front lawn of the Indiana State Prison wearing a top hat and frozen smile. Its left arm was raised in a wave, as if to greet the white vans waiting to take witnesses to the death chamber. Inside the brick building […]
Among a president’s most profound responsibilities is the power to grant clemency. Now, as President Joe Biden’s first term winds down, he faces mounting calls to use that authority to commute the sentences of the 40 men on federal death row. Donald Trump’s final months in office marked a stark shift in federal execution policy. […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ attorney general sought again on Thursday to stop a man on death row from testifying to lawmakers who have raised doubts about his guilt and successfully paused his execution at the last minute in October. Robert Roberson was convicted in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old daughter. His execution had been […]
Mature businessman leading project meeting in office conference room getty Great leadership is a balancing act—juggling priorities while inspiring others to achieve a shared vision. The PIE framework, devised by my colleague Suzy Welch at NYU Stern, offers a simple yet powerful blueprint for success: People, Ideas, and Execution. This approach highlights the essential balance […]
Decades of rule by the Assad family came to an end over the weekend following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad. But as the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen explains, there are now demands for retribution from Syrians, with some calling for the public execution of those who served the Assads.
If a VM has been backdoored, the cryptographic attestation will fail and immediately alert the VM admin of the compromise. Or at least that’s how SEV-SNP is designed to work. BadRAM is an attack that a server admin can carry out in minutes, using either about $10 of hardware, or in some cases, software only, […]
The rare step of closing the consulates reflected German protests over the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, an outspoken opponent of the Iranian regime.
The Texas Supreme Court halted Robert Roberson’s scheduled execution late Thursday night, following an extraordinary series of legal twists and turns spurred by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers. The legislators, including influential members of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, deployed a sequence of jiu-jitsu-like moves to give Roberson a chance to prove his innocence. […]
Innocence Project / Ilana Panich-Linsman A Texas judge has blocked the execution of the first man to be put on death row in the US for murder charges related to “shaken baby syndrome”, less than two hours before the capital punishment was due to be carried out. Robert Roberson, 57, was sentenced to death in […]
Minutes after Missouri executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday, his son, Marcellus Williams Jr., addressed a crowd of supporters that had gathered to grieve in front of the state prison in Bonne Terre. Among them was Maha Odah, a Palestinian American activist with Al-Hadaf Kansas City, a Palestinian liberation organization, who had driven more than […]
