Race

Sep 23, 2022

Lawyers for a North Carolina cap­i­tal defen­dant have filed a sweep­ing chal­lenge to the method by which death-penal­ty jurors are empan­eled, argu­ing that the com­bi­na­tion of a process known as ​“death qual­i­fi­ca­tion” and dis­cre­tionary j…

Mental Illness

Sep 22, 2022

Lawyers for Oklahoma death-row pris­on­er Benjamin Cole have filed a peti­tion with the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Parole ask­ing the Board to rec­om­mend to Governor Kevin Stitt that Cole’s sentenc…

Methods of Execution

Sep 21, 2022

A fed­er­al dis­trict court has issued an order that, if upheld on appeal, would halt the sched­uled September 22, 2022 exe­cu­tion of Alabama death-row pris­on­er Alan Miller. In a 61-page rul­ing on September 1…

International

Sep 20, 2022

Equatorial Guinea has abol­ished the death penal­ty, becom­ing the 25^th African nation to end cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and the fourth in the past two years. According to state tele­vi­sion reports, on September 19, 2022, P…

Innocence

Sep 19, 2022

Bell County pros­e­cu­tors have dropped their efforts to impose the death penal­ty on Marvin Guy (pic­tured), an African American man who has been held eight years with­out tri­al in con­nec­tion with the death of a white…

Military

Sep 16, 2022

A sec­ond mil­i­tary com­mis­sions pros­e­cu­tor who had advo­cat­ed using tes­ti­mo­ny obtained by tor­ture against defen­dants in the death penal­ty tri­al of the Guantánamo detainees charged with the October 2000 bomb­ing of the U.S.S. C…

Methods of Execution

Sep 15, 2022

Alabama pros­e­cu­tors have told a fed­er­al judge that the state will not exe­cute death-row pris­on­er Alan Miller by nitro­gen hypox­ia on September 22, 2022, three days after sug­gest­ing there was a ​“very good chance” it…

Sentencing Data

Sep 14, 2022

The out­come of a cap­i­tal pros­e­cu­tion can be pre­dict­ed based upon the rel­a­tive social sta­tus of the vic­tim, the defen­dant, and the jurors, apply­ing a soci­ol­o­gy con­cept known as the geo­met­ri­cal the­o­ry of law, accord­ing to the authors of a new book, …

Arbitrariness

Sep 13, 2022

An Alabama appeals court has upheld a fifth non-unan­i­mous death sen­tence imposed on a death-row pris­on­er who has faced six cap­i­tal sen­tenc­ing tri­als for the same offense and was once found to be inel­i­gi­ble for the death penal­ty be…

Race

Sep 12, 2022

A new study of the Texas death penal­ty, released as the state was con­duct­ing its 400^th mod­ern-era exe­cu­tion in a case involv­ing a white vic­tim, has doc­u­ment­ed over­whelm­ing racial dis­par­i­ties in the Lone Star state’s cap­i­tal punish…