Voices: Cristina Bordé and Mara Tobis
May 10, 2018
When Vicente Benavides walked out of San Quentin State Prison late last month, the first prisoner in recent memory to walk off California’s death row,
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Explainer: How to educate yourself about DA races
May 10, 2018
What is a district attorney? The California primary elections will take place on June 5. There’s a lot at stake, in state and around the
Alabama executes 83-year-old; SCOTUS intervenes in case of seriously ill prisoner
May 10, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided that Walter Leroy Moody wasn’t too old to be executed, but Russell Bucklew may be too sick. Moody was
New Hampshire close to repeal
May 10, 2018
Late last month, the New Hampshire House and Senate voted to repeal the state’s death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life without
In brief: May 2018
May 10, 2018
In Massachusetts, some Republicans are calling for reinstatement of the death penalty for the murder of law enforcement officials in the wake of the killing
While we’re on the subject . . . .
May 10, 2018
Living on Death Row examines the “psychology of waiting to die.” Edited by Hans Toch, James R. Acker and Vincent Martin Bonventre, the book presents
Oklahoma delays seven execution dates, including Richard Glossip’s
January 26, 2023
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted a motion filed by newly-elected Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond to slow down the state’s frenzied plan to
Arizona pauses its executions; orders a review of procedures and protocols
January 25, 2023
Stating that Arizona’s recent history of executions by lethal injection “has caused many, including courts, to express concerns regarding whether executions are being carried out
Report reveals Tennessee’s appalling execution protocol
January 25, 2023
2022 was the “year of the botched execution,” according to the Death Penalty Information Center. And now, a 166-page report from a law firm commissioned
CA Supreme Court to give 18-25-year-olds sentenced to lwop a second look
January 25, 2023
The California Supreme Court granted review earlier this month on whether people serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed when they were between the ages of
The Kevin Cooper “investigation”
January 25, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order in May 2021, calling for an investigation into Kevin Cooper’s 1985 death penalty conviction for a quadruple
In brief: January 2023
January 19, 2023
In Oklahoma, Scott Eizember was killed last week. Eizember was sentenced to death in 2003 for the murders of A.J and Patsy Cantrell. His execution
California will dismantle death row; prison transfers will be “permanent and involuntary”
January 17, 2023
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is moving ahead with its plan to dismantle its death row in San Quentin State Prison and move
While we’re on the subject . . . .
January 9, 2023
“The death penalty is beyond redemption. It is unfair and unfixable, and it turns states into killers in the name of vengeance against killers,” the
Two year-end reports highlight a broken death penalty system in the US
January 3, 2023
“2022 can be called ‘the year of the botched execution,’” the Death Penalty Information Center stated in its annual report on capital punishment in the
