Sentencing Alternatives
Nov 25, 2019
For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1985, a majority of Americans now say life imprisonment is a better approach for punishing murder than is the death penalty. According to the 2019 Gallup death-penalty p…
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Dec 06, 2019
A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of Arizona death-row prisoner Barry Jones (pictured) based on medical evidence suggesting that he may not have committed the murder for which he was sentenced to…
Arbitrariness
Dec 05, 2019
The state of Tennessee is preparing to execute a blind death-row prisoner on December 5, 2019, without providing him judicial review of a legal claim that led the state’s courts to overturn the conviction of a former death-row pri…
Mental Illness
Dec 04, 2019
Lawyers for federal death-row prisoner Wesley Purkey, who is scheduled to be executed on December 13, 2019, say he is incompetent to be executed because he has Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injuries that …
Upcoming Executions
Dec 03, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the United States Supreme Court to…
Victims' Families
Dec 02, 2019
Saying that “Virginia’s death penalty fails victims’ families,” 13 family members of Virginia homicide victims — including the daughter of a sheriff’s deputy whose assailant was executed — have called on Virginia legislators to abolish capital punishm…
Dec 02, 2019
NEWS — December 2, 2019: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied the Department of Justice’s motion to lift the
Arbitrariness
Nov 27, 2019
In a departure from its prior editorial stand, the Orlando Sentinel published an editorial on November 22, 2019 calling for Florida to abolish the death penalty. Describing the state’s capital-punishment system as a “hopeless quagmire of …
Innocence
Nov 26, 2019
Popular culture has the potential to change social attitudes, and actors in two eagerly anticipated movies focusing on the death penalty are hoping that their films will do just that. In recent interviews about their roles in the dramas Just M…
Nov 25, 2019
NEWS — November 29: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a federal district court ruling granting Arizona death-row prisoner Ba…
Death Row Overview
Nov 22, 2019
The number of people on death row or facing capital resentencing in the United States is at a 27-year low, according to a DPIC analysis of data from a new death-row census by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Th…
