Ohio executed its first inmate in three-and-a-half years late last month, using a new three-drug protocol, including midazolam, rocuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. Forty-five-year-old Ronald
“There is no justification for executing the insane, and no reasoned support for it, as only a glance at the brief of amici—filed by able
In Texas, TaiChin Preyor was executed late last month, after his appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court. Preyor, who was convicted of the
“To spend 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and emerge with his humanity and dignity intact … to spend 20 years, day in and day out, fighting for his freedom, it was just so extraordinary. It was totally compelling.”
A petition drive that was started by five men exonerated from Ohio’s death row culminated today with the delivery of 100 thousand signatures to the
A diverse group of death penalty opponents held a news conference at the state capitol in Ohio on Wednesday to ask Gov. John Kasich to
Scharlette Holdman, who died last week, was renowned in the criminal justice world as one of the foremost death penalty mitigation specialists in the country.
“The execution of a man suffering from severe mental illness is an act of particular barbarism — especially if his condition may have been misdiagnosed
“We will now reverse the district court’s denial of appointed counsel and expert funding . . . vacate its factual findings relating to Panetti’s competency,
It passed by the slimmest of margins in November’s election, but Prop 66 has been stayed by the California Supreme Court since a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality was filed in the aftermath of the election. DPF board member and death penalty attorney Aundre Herron brings us up to date on the latest developments in the legal challenges facing this problematic initiative.
Across the country, states, legislatures, and the courts found themselves grappling with death penalty issues. We look at some of the more significant developments .
Four Spanish journalists were so affected by the experiences of death row exonerees they spent six years and much of their own money to make a documentary about a group of four men who call themselves the “Resurrection Club.”
Senator Bernie Sanders will accept the Abolition Awards and Judy Clarke and Speedy Rice will accept the Mario Cuomo Acts of Courage Award.
A while back I received a message from someone who was deeply angry about my opposition to the death penalty and let me know it in no uncertain terms. He (I assume it was a he) really blasted me. He made a lot of pretty radical assertions, assumptions, and judgments about me, about why I do what I do, why I feel the way I feel, and, of course, how wrong
Two civil rights heroes who never stopped fighting for the rights of the oppressed.
For whatever reason – cost, racial disparity, wrongful conviction – five states are now looking at repealing and replacing the death penalty.
For the past year, Florida’s legislators have tried to come up with a constitutional death penalty, but still haven’t succeeded.
The man President Trump has nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court seems disturbingly similar to the justice whose seat he will take.
