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“SCOTUS’ guardrails have given way to removing roadblocks,” says a USF law professor

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Florida prosecutor seeks death penalty in sex abuse case in a test of a new state law

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While we’re on the subject . . . .

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In brief: March 2024

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Texas executed Ivan Cantu despite questions about his case

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The California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code’s recommendation to eliminate the death penalty is so significant that, “ When the story is told about how the death penalty was abolished in California, the work of a little-known legislative committee will deserve an entire chapter,” DPF board member Stephen Rohde declares.

After Trump's rush of executions, President Biden and a Democratic Congress want to abolish the federal death penalty

Two prominent voices, one a former Democratic US senator, the other a former Republican-appointed US attorney, call on President Biden to commute all federal death sentences, writing that “the death penalty . . . is no longer the polarizing issue it once was.”

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I’m grateful to Death Penalty Focus and other organizations, religious and secular, that are faithfully keeping my hope alive. The arc of justice bends slowly — and can sometimes be deflected — but continues to bend toward justice… and mercy.

Chip Sharpe
Supporter of Death Penalty Focus
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To me, supporting the abolition of the death penalty gives me the chance to let those men and women on death row know that I still see them.  I see them not as the worst thing they have ever done but as someone who still has a heart just like mine.

Colleen Tracy
Supporter of Death Penalty Focus
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I believe nobody has the right to take anyone’s life no matter the crime. I believe in redemption & mercy and yes, re integration into society if at all possible.

Gerlind Kennedy
Supporter of Death Penalty Focus
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