DOJ to restart federal executions; speed up death penalty process
August 16, 2019
The “machinery of death” will shift into high gear in the next few months if the Department of Justice gets its way. On Monday, Attorney
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The “paradigm shift” in California’s death penalty
July 12, 2019
Death penalty lawyer and DPF board member Robert M. Sanger believes that the moratorium Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in March created “a paradigm shift in
ACLU’s report on Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey’s shameful death penalty record
July 11, 2019
“In Los Angeles County, which is known as a bastion of progressivism, we have a system that is churning out more death sentences than any
Mississippi DA says Flowers will be tried again
July 11, 2019
Three weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for a 1996 quadruple murder
1,500 executions; 166 exonerations
July 11, 2019
Two milestones were reached in June, starkly illustrating how broken the death penalty in the United States is. In North Carolina, prosecutors formally dismissed all
In brief: July 2019
July 11, 2019
New Mexico closed its death row late last month. The last two condemned prisoners, Timothy Allen and Robert Fry, had their sentences vacated by the
While we’re on the subject . . .
July 11, 2019
In his chapter, “Capital Punishment,” in the American Bar Association’s The State of Criminal Justice 2019, Ronald J. Tabak reviews significant developments through the past
“It’s not over”
June 14, 2019
Early last month, a small group of California district attorneys organized what it called a “Victims of Murder Justice Tour” in a few cities around
Study: The death penalty means higher taxes, fewer government services
June 14, 2019
“I have no reason to believe government officials are deliberately hiding the way they pay for capital trials, but I do believe taxpayers in death
New Hampshire repeals its death penalty
June 14, 2019
Twenty-one years after New Hampshire legislator Renny Cushing introduced his first bill to repeal the death penalty, he was finally successful last month when the
Four states, five executions
June 14, 2019
The machinery of death was in high gear in the South in May. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida each killed a man, and Alabama executed two.
Florida SA Aramis Ayala won’t run for re-election
June 14, 2019
Stating that, “After the Florida Supreme Court’s decision on the death penalty, it became abundantly clear to me that the death penalty law in the
Join us for a conversation on “Torture and the Death Penalty”
September 29, 2022
Death Penalty Focus is marking the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty with a webinar featuring a discussion on “Torture and the Death Penalty”
While we’re on the subject. . .
September 27, 2022
“His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and
Alabama judge stays Alan Miller’s execution
September 20, 2022
Alabama may not kill Alan Eugene Miller on Thursday, AL.com reports. A federal judge issued a stay for Miller yesterday after Miller argued he had
Toforest Johnson asks Alabama Supreme Court for a new trial
September 13, 2022
Toforest Johnson, who has been on Alabama’s death row since 1998 for a crime he likely didn’t commit, is asking the state Supreme Court for
California’s homicide rate and the conservative law-and-order myth
September 9, 2022
Conservatives love to blame high violent crime rates on progressives and their criminal justice reform efforts, especially in California, which is why the recently-released state
Court finds South Carolina’s execution methods unconstitutional
September 7, 2022
South Carolina’s plan to execute men and women by electrocution or firing squad constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the state Constitution, a
Albert Woodfox
August 29, 2022
Albert Woodfox, who spent 42 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison) for a crime he didn’t commit before
American Psychological Association calls for death penalty ban on those under 21
August 29, 2022
The American Psychological Association called on the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to ban the death penalty for people younger than 21, “based on scientific
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issues a stay of execution for Glossip
August 29, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has issued a 60-day stay of execution for Richard Glossip. The stay is effective September 22, the day Glossip was scheduled
