Publications & Testimony
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Dec 31, 2015
Women Executed in the US: 1900 – 2021
Date of Execution Name Race State Execution Method 1. 7/17/1903 DORA WRIGHT B OK Hanging 2. 12/8/1905 MARY ROGERS W VT Hanging 3. 3/29/1909 MARY FARMER W NY Electrocution 4. 8/16/1912 VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN B VA Electrocution 5. 1/13/1922 PATTIE PERDUE B MS Hanging 6. 1/12/1928 RUTH SNYDER W NY Electrocution 7. 2/1/1929 ADA LEBOEUF W LA Hanging 8. 1/24/1930 SELENA GILMORE B AL Electrocution 9. 2/21/1930 EVA…
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State Execution Rates (through 2023)
*Death penalty…
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Likely Innocent But Died on Death Row
Donnis MusgroveAlabama: Conviction, 1988; Died on Death Row, 2015David RogersAlabama: Conviction, 1988; Died on Death Row,…
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Stays of Execution in 2015
Dec 30, 2015
Missouri Juror Who Voted for Death Says New Evidence Would Have Changed Sentencing Decision
In 1997, a St. Louis County, Missouri jury unanimously voted to sentence David Barnett to death. Eighteen years later, after learning horrific details of the physical and sexual abuse to which Barnett had been subjected as a small child, Andrew Dazey — the jury foreman in Barnett’s trial — says “[t]here’s no way” he would have voted for death. At trial, Barnett’s lawyer presented some evidence of his client’s abuse, mental illness, and suicide attempts. However, he failed to…
Read MoreDec 29, 2015
NEW VOICES: Why Prosecutors in Texas, Pennsylvania Are Seeking Death Penalty Less Often
Prosecutors across the country are seeking the death penalty less frequently and in recent interviews two district attorneys, one from Texas and one from Pennsylvania, have given some of their reasons why. Randall County, Texas District Attorney James Farren (pictured) told KFDA-TV in Amarillo that his experience handling one particularly lengthy and costly capital case has changed how he will make decisions in future cases that are eligible…
Read MoreDec 28, 2015
Delaware Supreme Court Overturns Third Death Sentence in Two Years Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct
For the third time in two years, the Delaware Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a death row inmate because his trial was tainted by prosecutorial…
Read MoreDec 23, 2015
Despite Executions, Death Penalty is in Decline in the “New Georgia”
Although Georgia carried out 5 of the 28 executions in the U.S. in 2015, it imposed no new death sentences and a significantly changed legal landscape points to a “new Georgia” with the death penalty in decline. The Georgia legal publication, Daily Report, dubbed the decline in death sentences its “newsmaker of the year,” and explored the reasons for the…
Read MoreDec 22, 2015
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Governor’s Moratorium on Executions
In a unanimous decision issued December 21, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld Gov. Tom Wolf’s (pictured) imposition of a moratorium on executions while he awaits the results of a legislative commission’s report on Pennsylvania’s death penalty. On February 13, 2015, Wolf issued a temporary reprieve to Terrance Williams and announced that he would put all executions on hold. At that time, he said that Pennsylvania’s “capital punishment…
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North Carolina Court Reverses Racial Justice Act Ruling, Orders New Hearings
The North Carolina Supreme Court has reversed the historic rulings of a Cumberland County, N.C. trial court that had overturned the death sentences of four North Carolina death-row prisoners under the state’s Racial Justice Act. Ruling entirely on procedural grounds, the state’s high court expressed no opinion on the lower court’s fact findings that North Carolina prosecutors had engaged in a decades-long practice of intentional race discrimination in jury selection in capital…
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