Voices: Ron Briggs
October 17, 2016
“We actually thought at the time, naively, that a broader death penalty would deter criminals,” Briggs says. “We truly believed the bill would reduce crime in California.”
“We actually thought at the time, naively, that a broader death penalty would deter criminals,” Briggs says. “We truly believed the bill would reduce crime in California.”
Five counties in southern California have been handing down so many death sentences one death penalty expert has dubbed them the “new Death Belt.”
A federal appeals court ruled last week that Missouri must disclose the identities of the suppliers who provide it with the drugs used in its
The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators passed a resolution last week calling for an end to the death penalty in the U.S. The 320-member
“In California, the death penalty system stopped working many years ago, but taxpayers continue to pay for it,” says Our Revolution, the recently formed political
Fourteen years ago, the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment issued a report recommending 85 reforms designed to minimize the possibility that an innocent person would
Angela Corey, the Florida State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, whose jurisdiction included Duval County, which had the highest number of death sentences per
“I described to the jury how I had to tell my six-year old daughter that she would never see her daddy again. I told them about her putting a flower on the coffin, hugging his coffin. I pulled no punches, let me tell you. I made that jury understand how much pain I was in, how much pain my family was in. I was very persuasive.”
A man who was wrongfully convicted of murder in New Orleans, and served 18 years, 14 on death row, in Angola State Prison before being
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of two defendants recently in two very different cases, but with the same issue: racial bias.
It passed by the slimmest of margins in November’s election, but Prop 66 has been stayed by the California Supreme Court since a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality was filed in the aftermath of the election. DPF board member and death penalty attorney Aundre Herron brings us up to date on the latest developments in the legal challenges facing this problematic initiative.
Across the country, states, legislatures, and the courts found themselves grappling with death penalty issues. We look at some of the more significant developments .
Four Spanish journalists were so affected by the experiences of death row exonerees they spent six years and much of their own money to make a documentary about a group of four men who call themselves the “Resurrection Club.”
Senator Bernie Sanders will accept the Abolition Awards and Judy Clarke and Speedy Rice will accept the Mario Cuomo Acts of Courage Award.
A while back I received a message from someone who was deeply angry about my opposition to the death penalty and let me know it in no uncertain terms. He (I assume it was a he) really blasted me. He made a lot of pretty radical assertions, assumptions, and judgments about me, about why I do what I do, why I feel the way I feel, and, of course, how wrong
Two civil rights heroes who never stopped fighting for the rights of the oppressed.
For whatever reason – cost, racial disparity, wrongful conviction – five states are now looking at repealing and replacing the death penalty.
For the past year, Florida’s legislators have tried to come up with a constitutional death penalty, but still haven’t succeeded.