News & Updates

Updates from Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Utah.

In California, the Los Angeles Daily News reports that Stanley Bernard Davis, sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Los Angeles college students Michelle Ann Boyd

Two bills that would go a long way toward reforming California’s seriously flawed criminal justice systems are on hold until January.

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

In Arizona, corrections officials are preparing to execute death row prisoners with the same gas the Nazis used in mass killings at its concentration camps,

Among Biden’s main executive orders, he will order that federal executions be halted. Read Here

President Joseph Biden is the first occupant of the Oval Office in American history to openly and publicly oppose the death penalty and advocate its

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

Justice Sotomayor offered a fierce dissent before the Trump Administration carried out its 13th Federal Execution since July.  Read Here

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

“We need to do everything in our power to root out white supremacy in all its forms, and that includes ending the death penalty for

This week, Donald Trump sanctioned the execution of the only woman on federal death row: Lisa Montgomery. She was the 11th prisoner to be killed