In brief: July 2022
July 26, 2022
In California, three death sentences were overturned by state and federal courts in the past few weeks, the Death Penalty Information Center reports. “Richard Clark,
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Guest Blog. A High-Schooler Against the Death Penalty: What Do I Know? By Ashley Xu
January 22, 2021
A Highschooler Against the Death Penalty: What Do I Know? As teenagers, or “children” under the age of 18, we are often disregarded and our
Why I Support Death Penalty Focus – Colleen Tracy
October 2, 2020
Why I Support Death Penalty Focus . . . by Colleen Tracy It is hard to say what sparked my interest in supporting the work
Another Innocent Man Executed?
May 4, 2020
By Jessica S. Henry Walter “Arkie” Barton is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on Tuesday, May 19th. Missouri may well be
“When we focus on revenge instead of healing, we never heal”
July 31, 2019
In 1986, my 70-year-old mother was asleep in her own bed when a teenaged neighbor broke into her home, raped her, and then beat her
“We’re still here, far from defeated”
January 11, 2019
Friends, we have work to do. Today we have to start over because in the end, Jerry Brown walked away. In spite of pleas from
Japan executes seven men in one day
July 13, 2018
Last Friday, Japan executed doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara and his six followers, who had been sentenced to death for the sarin gas attack on
Three states opt for execution by nitrogen
April 13, 2018
Three states, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Alabama, have recently given the go-ahead to execute prisoners using nitrogen gas, a new, untested, untried method of killing women
DPF launches search for next executive director
December 15, 2017
Application Deadline: January 22, 2018 Death Penalty Focus (DPF), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1988 to abolish the death penalty, is seeking an Executive
Repost: Proposition 66 Watch
June 6, 2017
It passed by the slimmest of margins in November’s election, but Prop 66 has been stayed by the California Supreme Court since a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality was filed in the aftermath of the election. DPF board member and death penalty attorney Aundre Herron brings us up to date on the latest developments in the legal challenges facing this problematic initiative.
An insider’s look at Japan’s death penalty
May 18, 2017
“Excessive bail shall not be required, or excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted,” says the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You
Pervis Payne is eligible for parole in Tennessee
September 6, 2023
The Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling that Pervis Payne, who spent 34 years on Tennessee’s death row before being
In brief: August 2023
August 30, 2023
In Alabama last week, where corrections officials botched three executions in a row last year because of the execution team’s inability to insert IV lines
Gerald Pizzuto, Jr.’s “plausible claims’ of cruel & unusual punishment”
August 28, 2023
Gerald Pizzuto, Jr., has been on Idaho’s death row since his 1986 conviction of the murders of Berta Herndon and her nephew Del Herndon in
While we’re on the subject…
August 25, 2023
“It’s quite horrifying — as it’s intended to be,” is how the spiritual advisor who was in the death chamber with Michael Tisius when the
Florida plans another execution, its sixth this year
August 21, 2023
Florida plans to continue its frantic pace of executions. The state announced it will kill Michael Duane Zack III in October, its sixth execution this
Aba Gayle
August 10, 2023
Aba Gayle, who became a passionate opponent of the death penalty after her 19-year-old daughter, Catherine Blount, was murdered, died in Silverton, Oregon, in late
Federal jury sentences Pittsburgh synagogue shooter to death
August 4, 2023
A federal jury in Pittsburgh sentenced Robert Bowers to death earlier this month for his October 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue that
Missouri and Florida have each scheduled executions this week
August 2, 2023
(This post was updated to reflect that Johnny Johnson was killed by the State of Missouri on Tuesday night.) The State of Missouri killed Johnny
In brief: July 2023
July 25, 2023
In California, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced late last month that he will seek the death penalty for 43-year-old Jesse Ceazar Navarro, accused
