Biden will halt federal executions, other actions on first day in office
January 19, 2021
Among Biden’s main executive orders, he will order that federal executions be halted. Read Here
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Virginia is one step closer to abolition!
January 19, 2021
A House bill seeking abolish the death penalty in Virginia was introduced by lawmakers in the General Assembly. Backed by Governor Northam, the bill was
‘This is not justice’: Justice Sonia Sotomayor offers fierce dissent in death penalty case
January 19, 2021
Justice Sotomayor offered a fierce dissent before the Trump Administration carried out its 13th Federal Execution since July. Read Here
Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution
January 19, 2021
Early Saturday the Trump administration executed Dusting Higgs. Mr. Higgs was convicted and condemned for killing three women in 1996. With a sworn affidavit by
Arizona governor and state Supreme Court in a showdown over executions
March 22, 2023
(Update: Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Supreme Court ended a standoff over the execution of Aaron Gunches on Wednesday, after this story was
While we’re on the subject. . .
March 21, 2023
“It is not for nothing that some critics refer to it as the ‘criminal legal system.’ The word ‘justice’ must be earned, and too often,
Crossing the River Styx: The Memoir of a Death Row Chaplain
March 21, 2023
“I was haunted by Russ before I even knew him. I tried to wrap my mind around what it was like to sit across from
In brief: March 2023
March 21, 2023
In Texas, corrections officials executed two men this month, Gary Green and Arthur Brown, Jr. Texas has killed five men this year. With last week’s
Texas withdraws Andre Thomas’s execution warrant
March 21, 2023
A state district judge withdrew the April 5 execution warrant for Andre Thomas earlier this month to give Thomas’s lawyers time to prepare for a
CA Gov. Newsom to turn San Quentin State Prison into “San Quentin Rehabilitation Center”
March 21, 2023
Declaring that he wants to “literally transform this place,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that San Quentin State Prison will convert from a
South Carolina and Florida want to expand their death penalty statutes
March 7, 2023
Bucking a trend of decreasing support for the death penalty in the United States, Republican-dominated legislatures in South Carolina and Florida are attempting to expand
Alabama to tinker with the machinery of death again
March 3, 2023
Three months after a series of botched executions caused Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to call for a pause in state killing to allow time for
The execution of Donald Dillbeck
February 27, 2023
Florida corrections officials killed Donald Dillbeck last Thursday. They did so despite the extensive evidence of his horrific sexual and physical abuse as a child,
