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November 8, 2021
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Alabama Executes Willie B. Smith
November 8, 2021
The state of Alabama executed Willie B. Smith last month without bothering to dispute the fact that he was intellectually disabled.
In brief: November 2021
November 8, 2021
Updates from Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Utah.
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
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.
Voices: Bethany Webb
October 11, 2021
“Ten years seem so long, but when I think about the shooting, about losing Laura, it seems both like it happened yesterday and a million
While we’re on the subject . . .
October 11, 2021
In his op-ed, “Oklahoma’s rush to execute harms culture of life,” in the Oklahoman, Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley writes that a court case pending in
In brief: October 2021
October 11, 2021
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law last week a bill that expands another criminal justice reform bill that became law two years ago.
Oklahoma Executions Loom
October 11, 2021
When the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 against clemency for John Grant last week, it cleared the way for the state to resume
Oregon Supreme Court ruling likely to clear death row
October 11, 2021
The Oregon Supreme Court issued a ruling last week which will likely overturn the death sentences of all 23 prisoners on death row. In State v.
“In the extreme: Women serving life without parole and death sentences in the United States”
October 11, 2021
“The circumstances that lead women to commit violent crimes are often complicated by a history of sexual and/or physical trauma….We know, for instance, that almost
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
Oklahoma executed Bigler Stouffer II on Thursday. He was 79, the second-oldest prisoner to be killed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated
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
