New Hampshire repeals its death penalty
June 14, 2019
Twenty-one years after New Hampshire legislator Renny Cushing introduced his first bill to repeal the death penalty, he was finally successful last month when the
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Four states, five executions
June 14, 2019
The machinery of death was in high gear in the South in May. Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida each killed a man, and Alabama executed two.
Florida SA Aramis Ayala won’t run for re-election
June 14, 2019
Stating that, “After the Florida Supreme Court’s decision on the death penalty, it became abundantly clear to me that the death penalty law in the
We’re building on the momentum
June 14, 2019
“I can’t think of a more exciting time to be part of the movement to abolish the death penalty,” new DPF Executive Director Nancy Haydt
In brief: June 2019
June 14, 2019
In Virginia, the Washington Post reports that progressive challengers defeated longtime incumbent prosecutors in Fairfax and Arlington counties on Tuesday. “The shift marks a stunning change:
While we’re on the subject . . .
June 14, 2019
In his New York Times column, “When We Kill: Everything You Think You Know About the Death Penalty is Wrong,” Nicholas Kristof cites cases (including Kevin
“Let this powerful moment strengthen our resolve.”
June 1, 2019
Dear Supporters, A couple of years ago, campaigning with the New Hampshire Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, I met Republican State Sen. Kevin Avard,
Formerly condemned 81-year-old Man leaves N. Carolina prison after 42 years; sentence overturned
May 28, 2019
Charles Ray Finch left North Carolina’s Greene Correctional Institution in a wheelchair last Thursday, 42 years after first being sentenced to death for a crime
Catholic bishops ask Florida governor to grant clemency to Bobby Joe Long on eve of execution
May 22, 2019
Florida plans to kill Bobby Joe Long tomorrow for the murder of Michelle Sims in 1984, although he pleaded guilty to killing eight women and
“I will continue to carry the pain of all the grief that I have caused others to endure.” Don Johnson’s letter before his execution
May 16, 2019
(Tennessee is planning to execute Don Johnson tonight for the murder of his wife, Connie, in 1984. Johnson is a very different man from the
Longest serving CA death row prisoner re-sentenced to life
May 10, 2019
Douglas Stankewitz, the longest serving prisoner on California’s death row, was re-sentenced to life without parole last Friday. Stankewitz, who is 60, was sentenced to
Georgia death sentence: “No one will have an abiding conviction that justice was done.”
May 10, 2019
It was the first death sentence a Georgia jury has delivered in five years, and it was handed down last week to a woman who
A call for international guidelines in interrogations and investigations
August 9, 2021
“Everyone has a breaking point. Anyone can be convinced to confess, to lie. And it’s not only that they can but they do it at
California’s judicial “Golden Rule”
August 9, 2021
It’s called the Golden Rule argument because it’s used by prosecutors to put jurors in the shoes of the victim. And according to Pepperdine Caruso
“We’re executing people who probably are innocent”
August 9, 2021
“I now believe that the death penalty should absolutely not be a punishment delivered by the state of Florida or for that matter, any place in the
Voices: Donna Doolin Larsen
July 7, 2021
Donna Doolin Larsen is tired. She hasn’t rested since 1995, when she, her mother-in-law, and her then 22-year-old son Keith walked out of her doctor’s
While we’re on the subject . . . .
July 7, 2021
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 Brief: July 2021
July 7, 2021
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
DPIC Looks at Two Death Penalty Trends in New Report
July 7, 2021
“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
William Richards is Found “Factually Innocent”
July 7, 2021
It’s taken 28 years, but William Richards is officially an innocent man. Three weeks ago, a San Bernardino Superior Court judge declared Richards “factually innocent”
American Bishops Join the Culture Wars
July 7, 2021
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
