Another Innocent Man Executed?
May 4, 2020
By Jessica S. Henry Walter “Arkie” Barton is scheduled to be executed by the State of Missouri on Tuesday, May 19th. Missouri may well be
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Federal death row prisoner files challenge to January execution
August 20, 2019
A lawyer for one of the five men the Trump Administration announced it plans to execute in December and January is challenging the legality of
Voices: Michael Radelet
August 16, 2019
“Justice Thurgood Marshall was correct in 1972 when he predicted that if people were better informed about the death penalty, they would reject it. That
Justice John Paul Stevens dies
August 16, 2019
In his book, book, Six Amendments, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called for revising six of the amendments to the Constitution, including the
DPF files amicus letter in support of motion to halt death penalty prosecutions
August 16, 2019
Death Penalty Focus has filed an amicus letter in support of a motion filed last month by death penalty lawyer and DPF board member Robert
“Death penalty violates PA’s constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment”
August 16, 2019
“Anyone who claims to believe in the sanctity of life, truth, or justice cannot seriously defend the application of the death penalty in Pennsylvania,” Philadelphia
In brief: August 2019
August 16, 2019
In Tennessee, the Tennessean reports Stephen West was executed by electric chair last night. He opted for electrocution over lethal injection, a choice available to
While we’re on the subject . . .
August 16, 2019
In his multi-part series, “We need to fix forensics. But how?” in the Washington Post, Radley Balko poses six questions to 14 experts who work
DOJ to restart federal executions; speed up death penalty process
August 16, 2019
The “machinery of death” will shift into high gear in the next few months if the Department of Justice gets its way. On Monday, Attorney
DPF files amicus letter in “Johnson” asking for CA Supreme Court review
August 7, 2019
Last month we reported on a case that may have enormous implications for the future of the death penalty in California. Death Penalty Focus has
The Death Penalty Will Not Prevent Mass Shootings
August 6, 2019
The mass shootings last weekend have caused unimaginable pain and suffering. Dozens of people are dead. Hundreds of family members and friends are grieving. Entire
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…
September 7, 2021
In her Nevada Independent op-ed, “Nevada is preparing to execute a man with significant organic brain damage,” Dr. Natalie Novick Brown, a licensed clinical psychologist who evaluated
In brief: September 2021
September 7, 2021
In California, the Los Angeles Daily News reports that Stanley Bernard Davis, sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Los Angeles college students Michelle Ann Boyd
