DOJ to restart federal executions; speed up death penalty process
August 16, 2019
The “machinery of death” will shift into high gear in the next few months if the Department of Justice gets its way. On Monday, Attorney
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The “paradigm shift” in California’s death penalty
July 12, 2019
Death penalty lawyer and DPF board member Robert M. Sanger believes that the moratorium Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in March created “a paradigm shift in
ACLU’s report on Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey’s shameful death penalty record
July 11, 2019
“In Los Angeles County, which is known as a bastion of progressivism, we have a system that is churning out more death sentences than any
Mississippi DA says Flowers will be tried again
July 11, 2019
Three weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for a 1996 quadruple murder
1,500 executions; 166 exonerations
July 11, 2019
Two milestones were reached in June, starkly illustrating how broken the death penalty in the United States is. In North Carolina, prosecutors formally dismissed all
In brief: July 2019
July 11, 2019
New Mexico closed its death row late last month. The last two condemned prisoners, Timothy Allen and Robert Fry, had their sentences vacated by the
While we’re on the subject . . .
July 11, 2019
In his chapter, “Capital Punishment,” in the American Bar Association’s The State of Criminal Justice 2019, Ronald J. Tabak reviews significant developments through the past
“It’s not over”
June 14, 2019
Early last month, a small group of California district attorneys organized what it called a “Victims of Murder Justice Tour” in a few cities around
Study: The death penalty means higher taxes, fewer government services
June 14, 2019
“I have no reason to believe government officials are deliberately hiding the way they pay for capital trials, but I do believe taxpayers in death
New Hampshire repeals its death penalty
June 14, 2019
Twenty-one years after New Hampshire legislator Renny Cushing introduced his first bill to repeal the death penalty, he was finally successful last month when the
Four states, five executions
June 14, 2019
The machinery of death was in high gear in the South in May. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida each killed a man, and Alabama executed two.
Florida SA Aramis Ayala won’t run for re-election
June 14, 2019
Stating that, “After the Florida Supreme Court’s decision on the death penalty, it became abundantly clear to me that the death penalty law in the
In Brief: August 2021
August 9, 2021
In California, a 22-year-old man who pleaded guilty to a fatal shooting at a San Diego synagogue in April 2019 will be sentenced to life
Pew Poll shows decline in support for the death penalty
August 9, 2021
Support for the death penalty declined to 60% from 2020 when 65% were in favor, although a majority of Americans still support capital punishment “despite
A call for international guidelines in interrogations and investigations
August 9, 2021
“Everyone has a breaking point. Anyone can be convinced to confess, to lie. And it’s not only that they can but they do it at
California’s judicial “Golden Rule”
August 9, 2021
It’s called the Golden Rule argument because it’s used by prosecutors to put jurors in the shoes of the victim. And according to Pepperdine Caruso
“We’re executing people who probably are innocent”
August 9, 2021
“I now believe that the death penalty should absolutely not be a punishment delivered by the state of Florida or for that matter, any place in the
Voices: Donna Doolin Larsen
July 7, 2021
Donna Doolin Larsen is tired. She hasn’t rested since 1995, when she, her mother-in-law, and her then 22-year-old son Keith walked out of her doctor’s
While we’re on the subject . . . .
July 7, 2021
In his new book, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, Marc Bookman, the co-founder and executive director of the Atlantic Center for Capital
In Brief: July 2021
July 7, 2021
In Virginia, there is no death row anymore. The Virginia Mercury reports that last weekend, prison officials announced the last two prisoners facing death sentences were
DPIC Looks at Two Death Penalty Trends in New Report
July 7, 2021
“The first half of 2021 spotlighted two continuing death-penalty trends in the United States. On one hand, the continuing erosion of capital punishment in law
