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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 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

“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

By Mike Farrell Sloughing off a warning from the Vatican, the American Conference of Catholic Bishops seem to have enlisted in the Culture Wars with

by Stephen Rohde When the story is told about how the death penalty was abolished in California, the work of a little-known legislative committee will

Stating that the Justice Department “must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution

For Joe Giarratano, Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty was a personal victory. He was on Virginia’s death row for 38 years before being released