January 10, 2022 - Death Penalty Focus

Teaser for a Kevin Cooper documentary is now streaming

January 10, 2022

“In his Defense,” a documentary on the Kevin Cooper case, is in the works right now, and California filmmaker Kenneth Carlson has released a teaser

While we’re on the subject . . .

January 10, 2022

In his editorial in Verdict, Austin Sarat says there is such significant “new progress in the effort to abolish America’s death penalty,” that it’s “not

In brief: January 2022

January 10, 2022

In Texas, the oldest person imprisoned on death row is scheduled to be executed on April 21. Carl Wayne Buntion, who is 77, has been

Executions and death sentences at near record lows in 2021, DPIC reports

January 10, 2022

“The death penalty in 2021 was defined by two competing forces: the continuing long-term erosion of capital punishment across most of the country, and extreme

Idaho governor denies commutation for Gerald Pizzuto, Jr.

January 10, 2022

Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. is 65 years old, dependent on a wheelchair, diabetic, and on hospice care because of advanced bladder cancer. He suffers from the

“Innocence isn’t enough here,” Arizona tells SCOTUS

January 10, 2022

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shinn v. Ramirez. It’s a complicated case, involving two respondents, David Ramirez

Alabama judge stays Alan Miller’s execution

September 20, 2022

Alabama may not kill Alan Eugene Miller on Thursday, AL.com reports. A federal judge issued a stay for Miller yesterday after Miller argued he had

Toforest Johnson asks Alabama Supreme Court for a new trial

September 13, 2022

Toforest Johnson, who has been on Alabama’s death row since 1998 for a crime he likely didn’t commit, is asking the state Supreme Court for

California’s homicide rate and the conservative law-and-order myth

September 9, 2022

Conservatives love to blame high violent crime rates on progressives and their criminal justice reform efforts, especially in California, which is why the recently-released state

Court finds South Carolina’s execution methods unconstitutional

September 7, 2022

South Carolina’s plan to execute men and women by electrocution or firing squad constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the state Constitution, a

Albert Woodfox

August 29, 2022

Albert Woodfox, who spent 42 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison) for a crime he didn’t commit before

American Psychological Association calls for death penalty ban on those under 21

August 29, 2022

The American Psychological Association called on the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to ban the death penalty for people younger than 21, “based on scientific

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt issues a stay of execution for Glossip

August 29, 2022

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has issued a 60-day stay of execution for Richard Glossip. The stay is effective September 22, the day Glossip was scheduled