Indefinite Solitary Confinement Ends at San Quentin
March 10, 2017
San Quentin State Prison will no longer place death row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely, thanks to a lawsuit filed by an Oakland attorney on behalf of six inmates.
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Arkansas Plans to Execute Eight Men Over 10 Days
March 10, 2017
A “rush to execute” sends shock waves throughout the United States.
Racial Bias at Center of Two SCOTUS Decisions
March 10, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of two defendants recently in two very different cases, but with the same issue: racial bias.
Proposition 66 Watch
March 10, 2017
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.
In Brief: March 2017
March 10, 2017
Across the country, states, legislatures, and the courts found themselves grappling with death penalty issues. We look at some of the more significant developments .
Voices: Alvaro Corcuera, Guillermo Abril, Olmo Figueredo, and Bernabé Rico
March 10, 2017
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.”
A man who spent 17 years on Oregon’s death row for a crime he didn’t commit is free
September 19, 2023
A man who spent 17 years on Oregon’s death row and 25 years in custody for a crime he didn’t commit was freed earlier this
Ohio legislators introduce a bipartisan bill to abolish the death penalty
September 11, 2023
Because it doesn’t have access to lethal injection drugs, Ohio’s last execution was in 2018. And now, a group of bipartisan legislators has introduced a
Pervis Payne is eligible for parole in Tennessee
September 6, 2023
The Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling that Pervis Payne, who spent 34 years on Tennessee’s death row before being
In brief: August 2023
August 30, 2023
In Alabama last week, where corrections officials botched three executions in a row last year because of the execution team’s inability to insert IV lines
Gerald Pizzuto, Jr.’s “plausible claims’ of cruel & unusual punishment”
August 28, 2023
Gerald Pizzuto, Jr., has been on Idaho’s death row since his 1986 conviction of the murders of Berta Herndon and her nephew Del Herndon in
While we’re on the subject…
August 25, 2023
“It’s quite horrifying — as it’s intended to be,” is how the spiritual advisor who was in the death chamber with Michael Tisius when the
Florida plans another execution, its sixth this year
August 21, 2023
Florida plans to continue its frantic pace of executions. The state announced it will kill Michael Duane Zack III in October, its sixth execution this
Aba Gayle
August 10, 2023
Aba Gayle, who became a passionate opponent of the death penalty after her 19-year-old daughter, Catherine Blount, was murdered, died in Silverton, Oregon, in late
Federal jury sentences Pittsburgh synagogue shooter to death
August 4, 2023
A federal jury in Pittsburgh sentenced Robert Bowers to death earlier this month for his October 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue that
