In brief: March 2019
March 8, 2019
In New Hampshire on Thursday, by a veto-proof vote of 279-88, the House repealed the state’s death penalty and replaced it with a sentence of
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March 8, 2019
In their paper, ” ‘A World of Steel-Eyed Death’: An Empirical Evaluation of the Failure of the Strickland Standard to Ensure Adequate Counsel to Defendants
Voices: Richard Leo
March 8, 2019
“Everyone has a breaking point. Anyone can be convinced to confess, to lie. And it’s not only that they can but they do it at
California’s death penalty and Proposition 66
February 8, 2019
Proposition 66 was passed by popular vote in 2016. Proponents insisted the proposition would speed up the process of capital trials and executions. It was big
Ohio execution delayed: LI drugs cause “waterboarding” effects
February 8, 2019
Republican Governor Mike DeWine postponed the execution of Warren Keith Henness late last month and ordered the state Department of Rehabilitation & Correction to “to
Kevin Cooper’s innocence campaign continues
February 8, 2019
“Kevin Cooper Case: Was the Wrong Man Convicted in the 1983 Chino Hills Massacre?” was the title of a two-hour episode on a “48 Hours”
In brief: February 2019
February 8, 2019
In California, the state Supreme Court unanimously overturned the death sentence of Jamelle Edward Armstrong, convicted of killing a Southern California woman in 1998. The
While we’re on the subject . . .
February 8, 2019
In her op-ed, “Want to Keep Ohio’s Death Penalty? Fix it First,” in the Columbus Dispatch, Phyllis L. Crocker commends Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s order
Voices: William Richards
February 8, 2019
“I just couldn’t believe they could do this to me. I came out broke and homeless.” William (Bill) Richards is referring to the San Bernardino
Before taking his life, Alabama took Domineque Ray’s religious freedom
February 8, 2019
When Domineque Ray was executed by the state of Alabama last night his spiritual advisor was not in the death chamber with him. The reason?
“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
Pardons, commutations, and moratoria defined
January 11, 2019
Governor Jerry Brown left office on Monday after weeks of discussion regarding the extension of clemency to the 740 condemned prisoners in California. Among all
Capital charges dismissed because of racism in LA gang case
June 28, 2022
The death penalty is off the table for Cleamon Johnson, an alleged Los Angeles gang leader accused of killing five people during the 1990s. Now,
In brief: June 2022
June 27, 2022
In Texas, a state district judge rejected a request by Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez to cancel a death warrant for a man scheduled
While we’re on the subject . . .
June 22, 2022
In her piece, “How the Supreme Court Stopped Fighting the “Machinery of Death,” in Balls and Strikes, Yvette Borja looks at how far the U.S.
Webinar On-Demand: District Attorneys & The Death Penalty
June 16, 2022
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at 12 p.m. (Pacific) / 3 p.m. (Eastern), Death Penalty Focus hosted a one-hour webinar on the role district attorneys
Arizona executes Frank Atwood
June 9, 2022
Arizona killed Frank Atwood by lethal injection on Wednesday morning, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. The 66-year-old Atwood was sentenced
SCOTUS “hamstrings” death row prisoners’ 6th Amendment rights
June 7, 2022
In a decision that dissenting Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called “perverse” and “illogical,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 late last month that death
Texas lawmaker would support death penalty moratorium in the wake of Lucio case
May 25, 2022
Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach, who led a bipartisan effort in the legislature to commute Melissa Lucio’s death sentence last month, told the host of
Arizona plans another execution in early June
May 25, 2022
Frank Atwood, imprisoned on death row since 1987 for the killing of an eight-year-old girl, is scheduled to be executed on June 8 in Arizona’s
Tennessee and Ohio stay executions over lethal injection concerns
May 25, 2022
A little over a week after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced he was staying five state killings planned for this year, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
