CBS’s “48 Hours” to air program on Kevin Cooper’s case
January 24, 2019
This Saturday, January 26, at 9 p.m. (PST and EST), CBS will air a two-hour “48 Hours” program about Kevin Cooper’s case. Kevin has been
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New Republic Article asks “Why aren’t Democratic Governors Pardoning More Prisoners?”
January 7, 2019
Check out this piece in the New Republic which looks at how (shamefully) few Democratic governors pardon or commute the sentences of prisoners, even though
California Attys for Criminal Justice: “Seize this opportunity for life”
December 28, 2018
Dear Governor Brown: On behalf of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ), the statewide organization of public and private criminal defense attorneys, we are writing
Kevin Cooper to get new DNA testing
December 25, 2018
California Governor Jerry Brown today ordered new tests on items from the crime scene that sent Kevin Cooper to death row in 1985. The governor’s
FINAL PUSH: Jerry Brown should remove everyone from death row.
December 15, 2018
Momentum is building, but time is running out. We need your help for one last push. Gov. Jerry Brown, please do not leave people behind on death row when you leave office.
Mike Farrell explains why you should sign our petition to Gov. Brown
November 28, 2018
Thanks so much to all of you who have signed our petition to California Gov. Jerry Brown asking him to remove as many people as
Catholic group presents Gov. Brown six thousand letters asking for clemency on death row
November 20, 2018
Representatives from Catholic and other organizations opposed to the death penalty delivered six thousand signatures to California Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday asking him to commute
Tennessee executed Edmund Zagorski by electric chair last night
November 2, 2018
Edmund Zagorski was executed in Tennessee last night by electric chair, the first time in 11 years the state has used that method. The 63-year-old
Tennessee still plans to execute prisoner by electric chair on Thursday
October 30, 2018
When the state has gotten the go-ahead to execute a man by electrocuting him, it’s difficult to understand why they would fight a request by
More violence isn’t a solution
October 29, 2018
It’s foolish to hope for any sort of measured or nuanced response from Donald Trump, but his thoughtless, knee-jerk, all-too-predictable immediate demand that the man accused
Tennessee tests its electric chair in preparation for next week’s execution
October 25, 2018
The Tennessean has a story today on how the state will test the electric chair it will use to kill Edmund Zagorski next Thursday. The
Support for death penalty lowest in decades
October 22, 2018
The majority of Americans no longer believe the death penalty is applied fairly. For the first time since Gallup polled on this issue in 2000,
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
