Charleston, SC shooter Dylann Roof was sentenced to death this week in rare federal trial
January 13, 2017
The verdict was not a surprise, but it did leave many wondering what would be achieved by executing a clearly disturbed young man.
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State regulators say no to CA’s new lethal injection plan
January 13, 2017
California’s new lethal injection protocol was rejected by a state regulatory agency that cited several problems with the proposal.
Florida’s continuing problems with the death penalty
January 13, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court sent Florida’s death penalty scheme into turmoil with a ruling last January, and things have just gotten more complicated since.
In brief
January 13, 2017
From Denver, where the new district attorney says she will not pursue the death penalty in murder cases, to North Carolina, which just marked 10 years since its last execution, the death penalty and its viability is being debated throughout the country.
Voices: 2016 Year in Review
January 13, 2017
For the past year-and-a-half, abolitionists, religious and political leaders, victims’ family members, and exonerees have shared their thoughts on the death penalty and why they work so hard to abolish it. Here are some of the highlights of those profiles.
Alabama executes Casey McWhorter by lethal injection; state SC gives the go-ahead to use nitrogen gas in future executions
November 20, 2023
Alabama executed Casey McWhorter earlier this month. He was convicted and sentenced to die in 1994 for the robbery and murder of Edward Lee Williams
While we’re on the subject. . .
November 20, 2023
“Whether you support capital punishment or oppose it, one thing is clear. Oklahoma’s system is so fundamentally flawed that we cannot know that someone who
In brief: November 2023
November 20, 2023
In South Carolina, executions are on hold until at least February, when the supreme court will hold a hearing over a lawsuit filed by four
Pennsylvania repeal bill moves forward; Ohio holds a second hearing on its abolition bill
November 20, 2023
Late last month, Pennsylvania House Bill 999 to repeal the death penalty passed out of the Judiciary Committee on a vote of 15-10. It was
Texas executed two men within one week
November 20, 2023
Texas killed 53-year-old Brent Ray Brewer by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on November 9. And one week later, on November 16,
Texas killed Brent Ray Brewer last week, plans another execution this week
November 13, 2023
Texas killed 53-year-old Brent Ray Brewer by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville last week. Brewer was executed for the April 1990 death
Gallup Poll: Record low number of Americans think death penalty is fair
November 9, 2023
Gallup released a poll this week that found that for the first time since 2000 when it began asking whether respondents believed the death penalty
Alabama SC gives the state the go-ahead to kill with nitrogen gas
November 6, 2023
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that the state attorney general can proceed with his plan to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas,
Death penalty bill for child rapists goes into effect in Florida
October 26, 2023
In Florida, a new law that would allow a person convicted of the rape of a minor to be sentenced to death went into effect
