‘This is not justice’: Justice Sonia Sotomayor offers fierce dissent in death penalty case
January 19, 2021
Justice Sotomayor offered a fierce dissent before the Trump Administration carried out its 13th Federal Execution since July. Read Here
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Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution
January 19, 2021
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
VIDEO Representative Cori Bush calls for incoming President Biden to Commute all Federal death sentences
January 18, 2021
“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
Trump, the death penalty and its links with America’s racist history
January 18, 2021
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
Why the Biden Administration Must Abolish the Death Penalty Copy
January 6, 2021
Trump’s increase in federal executions exposes the racism, classism, inability to deter crime, and high cost of capital punishment. Read Here
‘A lifetime of torture’: the story of the woman Trump is rushing to execute”, from The Guardian
January 6, 2021
Lisa Montgomery’s first experiences of sexual abuse occurred indirectly when she was three years old. She would lie in bed at night beside her beloved
Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed – The Man I Saw Them Kill
December 18, 2020
“The idea of execution promises catharsis. The reality of it delivers the opposite, a nauseating sense of shame.” Read Elizabeth Bruenig’s Op-ed in the New
George Gascon is new L.A. County District Attorney. Vows to end the death penalty.
December 9, 2020
In any case charged from this day forward, LADA will not seek the death penalty. In any case currently charged with special circumstances where the
From Sister Helen Prejean: Trump is rushing to execute inmates. We must raise our voices in protest.
December 7, 2020
Source: The Washington Post The Trump administration is engaged in a full-court press to execute as many people on federal death row as possible before
Gavin Newsom files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Death Penalty Case alleging Racial Discrimination
November 11, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a brief in support of the appeal of Don’te McDaniel, a man on death row convicted of murder. Newsom argued in
President-elect Joe Biden promises to work to abolish the federal death penalty.
November 11, 2020
2020 demonstrates the random callous nature of the death penalty. Until July 7,2020, for 17 years, the federal government did not execute a single federal
“Innocence isn’t enough here,” Arizona tells SCOTUS
January 10, 2022
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shinn v. Ramirez. It’s a complicated case, involving two respondents, David Ramirez
Watch Now: The Death Penalty Brutalizes Us All
December 10, 2021
On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, we will presented “The Death Penalty Brutalizes Us All,” the fourth in our webinar series. Mike Farrell, DPF board president,
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
