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Three states opt for execution by nitrogen
April 13, 2018
Three states, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Alabama, have recently given the go-ahead to execute prisoners using nitrogen gas, a new, untested, untried method of killing women
How old is too old, how sick is too sick to be executed?
April 13, 2018
Just how old, how sick, or how mentally ill does a death row prisoner have to be for the government to opt not to execute
American Bar Association launches program to assist death penalty lawyers
April 13, 2018
Stating that there’s “a major gap in resources for lawyers who defend capital cases,” the American Bar Association is launching The Capital Clemency Resource Initiative,
New poll finds majority favor LWOP over death penalty
April 13, 2018
A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University finds that American voters choose life without parole over the death penalty 51-37 percent, the first time a
In brief: April 2018
April 13, 2018
In Georgia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declined to hear an appeal by Keith Tharpe that he was sentenced to death
While we’re on the subject . . . .
April 13, 2018
A collection of the writings of the late Rabbi Leonard Beerman, edited by David N.. Myers, can be found in The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard
Voices: Justice for Walter Ogrod may be finally at hand
April 13, 2018
One year ago, we wrote about the case of Walter Ogrod, a man whom many believe was wrongfully convicted of killing four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn
A “letter” from death row
April 13, 2018
It’s no secret that there are some very talented men and women on death rows around the country. We’ve published some of their works here
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
