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Richard Kamler, who died last year, was an activist and artist who used his skills to protest capital punishment in an unusual and highly effective

It’s no secret that there are some very talented men and women on death rows around the country. We’ve published some of their works here

A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University finds that American voters choose life without parole over the death penalty 51-37 percent, the first time a

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row for a crime he didn’t commit. He was exonerated and freed in April 2015. The

Tomorrow, on the three-week anniversary of the botched execution of Doyle Lee Hamm, which left him bruised, bleeding and limping after a two-and-a-half hour attempt

February 14, 2018   The Honorable Edmund G. Brown 
 Governor  
State of California  
State Capitol, Suite 1173  
Sacramento, CA 95814   Dear Governor Brown,  We

Today, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to recommend clemency for Thomas Whitaker.  Whitaker is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for

Washington’s state Senate voted to end the death penalty by a vote of 26-22 yesterday. The bill, which would repeal the death penalty and replace

Tennessee, which hasn’t put anyone to death since 2009, is now hoping to execute eight people before June 1. That means eight executions in four

Bethany Webb, whose sister was killed and mother wounded in a mass shooting in Seal Beach, California in 2011, has not given up her crusade