The death penalty and California: 2017 in review
January 12, 2018
It’s easy to forget that California is a state with the death penalty on its books, and it’s not hard to see why. The state
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SCOTUS sends death penalty case back because of racist juror statements
January 12, 2018
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case of Keith Tharpe, who was sentenced to death in 1991 in Georgia, to a lower court
Alabama plans to kill terminally ill prisoner next month
January 12, 2018
Doyle Lee Hamm has been on Alabama’s death row for 30 years. He is 60 years old, and is terminally ill with cranial and lymphatic
Is opposition to the death penalty no longer the third rail in politics?
January 12, 2018
There are six major-party candidates running for governor of California, and according to a recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle, all but one is
New Philly DA delivers: cleans house
January 12, 2018
In what one local television station called “one of the most shocking and drastic shakeups of the district attorney’s office that anyone can recall,” newly-elected
In brief: January 2018
January 12, 2018
In California, the Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles County officials “mistakenly destroyed the evidence” that Scott Pinholster says would prove him innocent of
January 2018: While we’re on the subject . . .
January 12, 2018
In its editorial, “Capital Punishment Deserves a Quick Death,” the New York Times refers to the recent attempted execution of Alva Campbell by the State
Voices: Kevin Cooper
January 12, 2018
“I have hope. And because I have hope I have life.” For Kevin Cooper, who has been on San Quentin’s death row since 1985, it
“Unchained Artists” exhibition opens in Marin County
January 12, 2018
“Unchained Artists,” an exhibition featuring some 50 pieces of artwork, poetry, and handcrafted art objects made by men and women incarcerated in the United States,
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
