Watch Now: Why Victims’ Family Members Oppose the Death Penalty
November 5, 2021
Why Victims’ Family Members Oppose the Death Penalty Watch the recap on-demand below Additional Resources Committee on Revision of the Penal Code – Death Penalty
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Watch Now: How We Decrease Death Row & Abolish the Death Penalty
October 28, 2021
How we Decrease Death Row & Abolish the Death Penalty: A Conversation with the California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code Watch the recap
Watch Now: Women on Death Row Webinar
October 18, 2021
Watch a recap of the first of our fall webinar series with “Women on Death Row,” moderated by Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty, in conversation with two women who wrongfully spent time on death row.
On Demand: 29th Annual Awards Event
February 12, 2021
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While we’re on the subject…
December 6, 2021
In his op-ed, “California halted executions, now it should abolish the death penalty,” in the Los Angeles Times, Scott Martelle says the moratorium on executions
In brief: December 2021
December 6, 2021
In Mississippi, David Cox died by lethal injection late last month in the state’s first execution since 2012. Cox, who had asked the court to
Doyle Lee Hamm dies
December 6, 2021
Doyle Lee Hamm, who survived a horrifically botched execution in Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility in 2018, died late last month in prison. The cause was
Pervis Payne resentenced due to intellectual disability
December 6, 2021
Pervis Payne, who has been on Tennessee’s death row for 34 years, and has always maintained his innocence, will be resentenced to life in prison
Oklahoma’s inhumane and illogical execution spree
December 6, 2021
In late October, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor announced that the state planned to execute seven men over the next five months. Since his announcement,
Julius Jones’ sentence commuted
December 6, 2021
Right up to and including the commutation of his death sentence, the state of Oklahoma acted with deliberate malice and cruelty to Julius Jones. Yes,
CA Committee on Revision of the Penal Code releases final report
December 6, 2021
When the California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code released a draft report in May, recommending that California abolish its death penalty, it highlighted
Voices: Ashley Cook
November 8, 2021
A year ago, wrongful convictions and the death penalty were not something that crossed my mind very often. As a Japanese major, I generally stay
Oklahoma executes John Grant
November 8, 2021
“I want to share with you my absolute conviction that the death penalty must disappear from the entire world as it is a shame for
