California Supreme Court upholds Proposition 66
September 8, 2017
The California Supreme Court’s decision last month to uphold Proposition 66, possibly green-lighting the resumption of executions in the state, was not surprising, but it
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Death Penalty Taken Off the Table in Orange County Trial Tainted by Prosecutorial Misconduct
September 8, 2017
In two weeks, Scott Dekraai, who confessed to killing eight people and wounding another in October 2011, in the worst mass killing in Orange County
Florida executes first inmate in 18 months
September 8, 2017
Mark James Asay was executed in Florida late last month, the first execution in the state since January 2016, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling
Missouri governor issues stay of execution for Marcellus Williams
September 8, 2017
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens issued a stay of execution late last month for Marcellus Williams based on new DNA evidence. The stay was issued hours
In brief: September 2017
September 8, 2017
In Ohio, 45-year-old Gary Otte is scheduled to be executed next Wednesday for two murders in 1992. Otte’s lawyers are challenging both the state’s lethal
Voices: Pamela Perillo
September 8, 2017
John T. Thorngren is 76 years old, and has had three heart attacks and two open heart surgeries. But he had one last item on
While we’re on the subject …
September 8, 2017
In a guest editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stephen Cooper calls on Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, who late last month stayed the execution of
Federal judge finds Scott Panetti unfit to be executed by Texas
October 2, 2023
Scott Panetti, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia 35 years ago, was convicted of killing his wife’s parents in 1992 and sentenced to death in 1995 in
Death penalty states may have difficulty finding lethal injection medical equipment
September 27, 2023
The Intercept reports that four companies that manufacture medical equipment, including Baxter International Inc., B. Braun Medical Inc., Fresenius Kabi, and Johnson & Johnson, are
While we’re on the subject . . .
September 27, 2023
“Under the Eighth Amendment, execution by nitrogen is surely unusual because it has never been used as a method of execution in this country or
In brief: September 2023
September 27, 2023
Alabama South Carolina In Tennessee, the only woman on the state’s death row is asking to have her death sentence vacated. Christa Pike was 18
Two men, both initially sentenced to death, are exonerated after serving decades
September 27, 2023
Two men, one in Oregon and the other in Oklahoma, both initially sentenced to death, who spent a combined 73 years in prison, have been
Sponsors put two major California criminal justice bills on hold until next year
September 27, 2023
At least two moderate criminal justice reform bills stalled in the California legislature this month, a surprising development in a state perceived to be so
LA DA Gascón charges suspect in LA County sheriff’s deputy killing with murder
September 27, 2023
Almost immediately after being elected Los Angeles County District Attorney in 2020, George Gascón issued a “Death Penalty Policy” promising that his office would not
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
