In a move described by death penalty abolitionists as “barbaric,” South Carolina on Friday gave the final approval for executions by firing squad. According to The State, the South Carolina Department of Corrections informed state Attorney General Alan Wilson that the agency is now able to shoot condemned inmates to death using a three-person volunteer team. A […]
New survey data out this week shows that U.S. voters—regardless of party affiliation—overwhelmingly support a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil corporations that are using Russia’s war on Ukraine to hike prices at the pump. According to polling results released by the League of Conservation Voters, 80% of U.S. voters—including 73% of Republicans—support “placing a windfall profits tax on the […]
For the majority of Americans who are so poor, they barely have to pay income taxes, Scott’s plan is just the latest in a 40-year barrage of assaults and insults coming from the GOP. They’re at it again: Republicans want to raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, end Social Security and Medicare, jack up pollution […]
“If you believe prosecutors should indict Trump, it’s worth reading,” said one former federal prosecutor. “We rarely get a window into prosecution decisions.” The New York Times on Saturday published a detailed account of what led two prosecutors involved with the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business practices to abruptly resign last month—a “seismic development” that […]