Innocence
Aug 30, 2019
In a year in which few states have carried out any executions, the aggressive execution practices of a single state — Texas — stand in sharp contrast. The Lone Star State has scheduled thi…
Read MoreSep 20, 2019
A federal appeals court has vacated the death sentence imposed on a North Carolina death-row prisoner, finding that one of his jurors improperly consulted her pastor about her decision and then communicated the pastor’s advice to …
Representation
Sep 19, 2019
In February 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned the conviction and death sentence of Tennessee death-row prisoner
Arbitrariness
Sep 18, 2019
Defendants convicted of killing white victims in Georgia are 17 times more likely to be executed than those convicted of murdering black victims, a new study by researchers at the University of Denver has found, …
Innocence
Sep 17, 2019
Supporters of Rodney Reed (pictured) are calling for a new trial for the Texas death-row prisoner sentenced to death in 1998 by an all-white jury in a racially charged trial. On September 10, 2019, Reed’s family a…
Arbitrariness
Sep 16, 2019
The California Supreme Court has declined to review the petitions of two Los Angeles County defendants who had …
Sep 16, 2019
NEWS — September 19: Oregon Governor Kate Brown has announced she will not call a special session to address whether the state’s new law limiting the types of murders punishable by death applies to future resentencing proceedings for prisone…
Arbitrariness
Sep 13, 2019
As the September 11, 2019 Pennsylvania Supreme Court argument date approached in two cases challenging the…
Arbitrariness
Sep 12, 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court (members pictured) heard oral argument on September 11, 2019 on whether to exercise its extraordinary “King’s Bench” powers to determine whether the death penalty, as currently applied in the Commonwealth, violates t…
Lethal Injection
Sep 11, 2019
Saying that “suffocation does not qualify as ‘severe pain and needless suffering,’” a federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled that the state’s three-drug execution protocol does not violate the constitutional prohibition against c…
Intellectual Disability
Sep 10, 2019
Texas executed Mark Soliz (pictured) on September 10, 2019, after a federal appeals court denied him a stay and dismissed his claim that his lifelong mental impairments resulting from fetal alcohol syndrome should…
