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
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We’re building on the momentum
June 14, 2019
“I can’t think of a more exciting time to be part of the movement to abolish the death penalty,” new DPF Executive Director Nancy Haydt
In brief: June 2019
June 14, 2019
In Virginia, the Washington Post reports that progressive challengers defeated longtime incumbent prosecutors in Fairfax and Arlington counties on Tuesday. “The shift marks a stunning change:
While we’re on the subject . . .
June 14, 2019
In his New York Times column, “When We Kill: Everything You Think You Know About the Death Penalty is Wrong,” Nicholas Kristof cites cases (including Kevin
“Let this powerful moment strengthen our resolve.”
June 1, 2019
Dear Supporters, A couple of years ago, campaigning with the New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, I met Republican State Sen. Kevin Avard,
Formerly condemned 81-year-old Man leaves N. Carolina prison after 42 years; sentence overturned
May 28, 2019
Charles Ray Finch left North Carolina’s Greene Correctional Institution in a wheelchair last Thursday, 42 years after first being sentenced to death for a crime
Catholic bishops ask Florida governor to grant clemency to Bobby Joe Long on eve of execution
May 22, 2019
Florida plans to kill Bobby Joe Long tomorrow for the murder of Michelle Sims in 1984, although he pleaded guilty to killing eight women and
“I will continue to carry the pain of all the grief that I have caused others to endure.” Don Johnson’s letter before his execution
May 16, 2019
(Tennessee is planning to execute Don Johnson tonight for the murder of his wife, Connie, in 1984. Johnson is a very different man from the
Longest serving CA death row prisoner re-sentenced to life
May 10, 2019
Douglas Stankewitz, the longest serving prisoner on California’s death row, was re-sentenced to life without parole last Friday. Stankewitz, who is 60, was sentenced to
Georgia death sentence: “No one will have an abiding conviction that justice was done.”
May 10, 2019
It was the first death sentence a Georgia jury has delivered in five years, and it was handed down last week to a woman who
Texas may finally redefine intellectual disability
May 10, 2019
Seventeen years after the U.S. Supreme Court found in Atkins v. Virginia that executing intellectually disabled prisoners constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of
Ohio finally considers exempting the mentally ill from execution
May 10, 2019
Five years after a statewide task force appointed to study Ohio’s death penalty released a report with 56 recommendations to improve the state’s deeply flawed
A BIG STEP TOWARD ENDING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CALIFORNIA
July 7, 2021
by Stephen Rohde When the story is told about how the death penalty was abolished in California, the work of a little-known legislative committee will
US Attorney General Calls for a Moratorium on Federal Death Penalty
July 7, 2021
Stating that the Justice Department “must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution
US Attorney General Merrick Garland Calls for a Moratorium on Federal Death Penalty
July 6, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Mary Kate DeLucco415-243-0143mary@deathpenalty.org US Attorney General Merrick Garland Calls for a Moratorium on Federal Death Penalty Sacramento (July 2, 2021) — Stating
In Brief – June 2021
June 9, 2021
In Arizona, corrections officials are preparing to execute death row prisoners with the same gas the Nazis used in mass killings at its concentration camps,
Voices: Philip Hansten
June 9, 2021
“I am confident there will come a day when we will have abolished the death penalty, and we will wonder how we could possibly have
A Former Death Row Prisoner Celebrates Virginia’s Abolition
June 9, 2021
For Joe Giarratano, Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty was a personal victory. He was on Virginia’s death row for 38 years before being released
California’s Racial Justice Act for All Passes Assembly
June 9, 2021
Last week, the California Racial Justice Act for All (AB 256), which addresses institutionalized and implicit racial bias in criminal cases, passed the state Assembly and
California Supreme Court Hears an Appeal that Could Change Death Sentencing
June 9, 2021
The California Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments from both sides on an appeal by a Los Angeles man who says his death sentence violated
California Commission Recommends Abolition of the Death Penalty
June 9, 2021
It was unanimous. “Eliminating the death penalty is a critical step towards creating a fair and equitable justice system for all in California, as the
