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Death Penalty

• June 10 -- A Headline You'll Never See In the Times
The headline reads "Should Doctors Help With Executions? No Easy Ethical Answer." Times Watch wonders if the Times would ever extend that premise to abortion.

• April 19 -- International Death Match
The Times critiques Bush on the death penalty: "Citizens in most other democracies in the world are appalled that the United States still has a death penalty." But is that true, or merely liberal conventional wisdom?

• February 6 -- "Conservatives" Against Death Penalty, Patriot Act
Chris Hedges' latest "Public Lives" profile ostensibly deals with a conservative Republican figure--one who is passionately anti-death penalty and calls the Patriot Act "a serious erosion of the rule of law."

• September 23 -- “Exoneration” Sweeping the Nation?
Pam Belluck claims: “As more than 100 people sentenced to death have been exonerated across the nation, other states have abridged or considered abridging the use of the death penalty.” Belluck makes it sound like a movement sweeping the nation, but the truth is less dramatic: Those 100-plus people span a period of 30 years.

• August 12 -- The Times Stands for “Common Decency” (Part II)
For the Times, that means being anti-death penalty. A headline reads: “Executions versus society’s standards of decency.”

• June 24 -- Greenhouse’s Gaseous Grasp on Supreme Court Politics
Before the Supreme Court ruling upholding racial preferences, reporter Linda Greenhouse wrote an analysis absurdly claiming the Court lacks liberal voices.

• June 19 -- Reprieving the Rosenbergs
A Times editorial, “Remembering the Rosenbergs,” marks the 50th anniversary of the execution of the Soviet spies by admitting Julius Rosenberg was an atomic spy -- but then claims the couple were victims of an “injustice” wrought by “anti-Communist hysteria.”

• April 28 -- The Times Column-Recycling Program
A Times editor’s note slams sports columnist Ira Berkow for suspicious similarities between one of his columns and an article in the Chicago Tribune. Well, at least he didn’t criticize Martha Burk.

• March 13 -- Times Reporter Reprieves Self From Fact-Checking
Peter Kilborn's piece on the last-minute stay of execution for convicted murderer Delma Banks' summarized the prosecution's evidence against him but also dropped an apparent bombshell: A key witness had "recanted much of his testimony." Exactly what did this witness recant? The Times didn't say, but as the Washington Post revealed, it had nothing to do with the murder evidence.

• March 10 -- Bob Herbert's Unlikely "Innocent"
Times columnist Bob Herbert took up the cause of yet another death row "innocent," arguing that Delma Banks, "a man with no prior criminal record, is most likely innocent of the charge that put him on death row." Never mind that, as the Washington Post reported, Banks "unwittingly led police to the .25-caliber pistol used to kill 16-year-old Wayne Whitehead."