December 15, 2017 - Death Penalty Focus

DPIC’s annual report looks at the death penalty’s declining support

Public support for the death penalty dropped to its lowest level in 45 years in 2017, and the number of death sentences and executions is

December 15, 2017

Prosecutor who put Jeff Wood on Texas’ death row asks for clemency

Twenty years ago, Lucy Wilke was the prosecutor who sent Jeff Wood to Texas’ death row, even though he never killed anyone. Now, according to

December 15, 2017

Could Hidalgo v. Arizona give SCOTUS the impetus to end the death penalty?

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether to accept Hidalgo v. Arizona, which not only challenges Arizona’s death penalty statute, but the death penalty

December 15, 2017

Missouri jurors reject the death penalty in a federal case

Late last month, federal prisoner Ulysses Jones, Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for the 2006 murder of another inmate at the U.S. Medical

December 15, 2017

In brief: December 2017

In California, Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye told a group of reporters that she expects Proposition 66, which passed in November 2016 on the

December 15, 2017

December 2017: While we’re on the subject . . .

In “Two Murder Convictions for One Fatal Shot,” in the November 13 issue of the New Yorker, Ken Armstrong examines a disturbingly frequent practice by

December 15, 2017

Voices: Richard Stack and “In the Executioner’s Shadow”

“In the Executioner’s Shadow” is a documentary that examines the death penalty from the per-spective of three very different people, and their very different experiences:

December 15, 2017

DPF launches search for next executive director

Application Deadline: January 22, 2018 Death Penalty Focus (DPF), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1988 to abolish the death penalty, is seeking an Executive

December 15, 2017

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DPIC’s annual report looks at the death penalty’s declining support

Prosecutor who put Jeff Wood on Texas’ death row asks for clemency

Could Hidalgo v. Arizona give SCOTUS the impetus to end the death penalty?

Missouri jurors reject the death penalty in a federal case

In brief: December 2017

December 2017: While we’re on the subject . . .

Voices: Richard Stack and “In the Executioner’s Shadow”

DPF launches search for next executive director

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