SCOTUS to consider anti-gay bias case
April 12, 2019
On Thursday, the Supreme Court considered whether to take the case of a South Dakota death row prisoner who maintains he was sentenced to death
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A Letter from Sister Helen Prejean to Governor Gavin Newsom
March 19, 2019
Dear Governor Newsom, Do you have ANY IDEA how refreshing it is to the SOUL to have a politician seek public office, who promises to
SCOTUS rules in favor of Alabama man suffering from dementia
March 8, 2019
If Alabama were to go ahead with its plan to execute 68-year-old Vernon Madison, he wouldn’t know why. Because of several strokes over the past
Racism in the Keith Tharpe case
March 8, 2019
The headlines say it all. “The Stench of Prejudice in Keith Tharpe’s Death Sentence,” in the New York Times. “A juror used the N-word. Did
Two California death row prisoners released
March 8, 2019
In the space of one week last month, two men walked out of prison, each of whom had spent decades on death row. Freddie Lee
CA Gov. Newsom orders additional DNA testing in Cooper case
March 8, 2019
“Yay Gavin Newsom. I’m very thankful to him for having the courage, the guts, to stand up and say before California murders anyone on my
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In New Hampshire on Thursday, by a veto-proof vote of 279-88, the House repealed the state’s death penalty and replaced it with a sentence of
While we’re on the subject . . .
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
Gov. Newsom orders more DNA testing for Kevin Cooper
February 22, 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom today ordered additional DNA testing on evidence in the case of Kevin Cooper, who was sent to death row almost 34
Ohio governor puts executions on hold
February 20, 2019
The Toledo Blade reports that Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is putting executions on hold because, he said today, “Ohio is not going to execute someone
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
‘This is not justice’: Justice Sonia Sotomayor offers fierce dissent in death penalty case
January 19, 2021
Justice Sotomayor offered a fierce dissent before the Trump Administration carried out its 13th Federal Execution since July. Read Here
Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution
January 19, 2021
Early Saturday the Trump administration executed Dusting Higgs. Mr. Higgs was convicted and condemned for killing three women in 1996. With a sworn affidavit by
VIDEO Representative Cori Bush calls for incoming President Biden to Commute all Federal death sentences
January 18, 2021
“We need to do everything in our power to root out white supremacy in all its forms, and that includes ending the death penalty for
Trump, the death penalty and its links with America’s racist history
January 18, 2021
This week, Donald Trump sanctioned the execution of the only woman on federal death row: Lisa Montgomery. She was the 11th prisoner to be killed
Why the Biden Administration Must Abolish the Death Penalty Copy
January 6, 2021
Trump’s increase in federal executions exposes the racism, classism, inability to deter crime, and high cost of capital punishment. Read Here
‘A lifetime of torture’: the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute”, from The Guardian
January 6, 2021
Lisa Montgomery’s first experiences of sexual abuse occurred indirectly when she was three years old. She would lie in bed at night beside her beloved
Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed – The Man I Saw Them Kill
December 18, 2020
“The idea of execution promises catharsis. The reality of it delivers the opposite, a nauseating sense of shame.” Read Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed in the New
George Gascon is new L.A. County District Attorney. Vows to end the death penalty.
December 9, 2020
In any case charged from this day forward, LADA will not seek the death penalty. In any case currently charged with special circumstances where the
From Sister Helen Prejean: Trump is rushing to execute inmates. We must raise our voices in protest.
December 7, 2020
Source: The Washington Post The Trump administration is engaged in a full-court press to execute as many people on federal death row as possible before
