Entries by Death Penalty Information Center

Two for­mer Pennsylvania death-row pris­on­ers, whose death sen­tences were over­turned by fed­er­al courts after the United States Supreme Court had ruled against them, have been resen­tenced to life without…

According to new­ly dis­closed records, the Harris County assis­tant dis­trict attor­ney who pros­e­cut­ed Texas death-row exoneree Alfred DeWayne Brown was aware of phone records that cor­rob­o­rat­ed Brown’s asser­tion of inno­cence long before the case went to tri­al, but with­held the records from the defense and intim­i­dat­ed a wit­ness who orig­i­nal tes­ti­mo­ny was sup­port­ed by the records into false­ly testifying against…

Alva Campbell (pic­tured), the ter­mi­nal­ly ill death-row pris­on­er who sur­vived a botched exe­cu­tion attempt by the state of Ohio on November 15, 2017, has…

The North Carolina Supreme Court announced on March 2 that it will hear appeals from three of the four pris­on­ers whose death sen­tences were reduced to life with­out parole under the state’s Racial Justice Act, then rein­stat­ed after the leg­is­la­ture repealed the…

Recently released poll results from two Florida coun­ties that have heav­i­ly used the death penal­ty sug­gest that vot­ers actu­al­ly pre­fer life-sentencing options…

In what lawyers for Virginia death-row pris­on­ers have called ​“a land­mark rul­ing,” a fed­er­al judge has issued an injunc­tion bar­ring the Commonwealth from sub­ject­ing pris­on­ers who have been sen­tenced to death to auto­mat­ic soli­tary con­fine­ment, phys­i­cal iso­la­tion from vis­i­tors and oth­er pris­on­ers, and other harsh…

With 24 pris­on­ers cur­rent­ly con­demned to die, Hamilton County—home to Cincinnati—has the largest death row of any coun­ty in Ohio, despite a small­er pop­u­la­tion and a low­er mur­der rate than oth­er parts of the state. Ten of the 55 pris­on­ers exe­cut­ed in the state since the 1970s were sen­tenced to death in Hamilton County, again more than any other Ohio…

Prosecutors in Mohave County, Arizona announced in February that they will drop the pur­suit of the death penal­ty in two mur­der cas­es in the coun­ty. Justin Rector and Darrell Ketchner were sep­a­rate­ly charged with first-degree mur­der, and offi­cials said their defense teams had already spent over $2.2 mil­lion prepar­ing for tri­als that are still far from tak­ing place. Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith said, ​“Everybody’s look­ing to save mon­ey and these death penal­ty cases are…

Less than a week after Alabama halt­ed the failed exe­cu­tion of a ter­mi­nal­ly ill pris­on­er whose veins were not suit­able for intra­ve­neous injec­tion, the U.S. Supreme Court has decid­ed to hear the case of anoth­er Alabama pris­on­er whose med­ical con­di­tion, his lawyers say, make him con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly unfit for…

Three states—Alabama, Florida, and Texas—pre­pared to car­ry out con­tro­ver­sial exe­cu­tions on Thursday, February 22, all sched­uled for 7 PM Eastern time, but by the end of the night, two had been…