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
Alabama executes Casey McWhorter by lethal injection; state SC gives the go-ahead to use nitrogen gas in future executions
November 20, 2023
Alabama executed Casey McWhorter earlier this month. He was convicted and sentenced to die in 1994 for the robbery and murder of Edward Lee Williams
While we’re on the subject. . .
November 20, 2023
“Whether you support capital punishment or oppose it, one thing is clear. Oklahoma’s system is so fundamentally flawed that we cannot know that someone who
In brief: November 2023
November 20, 2023
In South Carolina, executions are on hold until at least February, when the supreme court will hold a hearing over a lawsuit filed by four
Pennsylvania repeal bill moves forward; Ohio holds a second hearing on its abolition bill
November 20, 2023
Late last month, Pennsylvania House Bill 999 to repeal the death penalty passed out of the Judiciary Committee on a vote of 15-10. It was
Texas executed two men within one week
November 20, 2023
Texas killed 53-year-old Brent Ray Brewer by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on November 9. And one week later, on November 16,
Texas killed Brent Ray Brewer last week, plans another execution this week
November 13, 2023
Texas killed 53-year-old Brent Ray Brewer by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville last week. Brewer was executed for the April 1990 death
Gallup Poll: Record low number of Americans think death penalty is fair
November 9, 2023
Gallup released a poll this week that found that for the first time since 2000 when it began asking whether respondents believed the death penalty
Alabama SC gives the state the go-ahead to kill with nitrogen gas
November 6, 2023
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that the state attorney general can proceed with his plan to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas,
Death penalty bill for child rapists goes into effect in Florida
October 26, 2023
In Florida, a new law that would allow a person convicted of the rape of a minor to be sentenced to death went into effect
