Entries tagged with “Charles Ray Crawford”

Oct 08, 2025

Upcoming Executions Illustrate Persistent Themes and Concerns Around the Death Penalty

Beginning October 10^th, and then over the next eight days, six peo­ple are sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed by lethal injec­tion in six dif­fer­ent states. Already this year, there have been 34 exe­cu­tions in nine states. While the con­cen­tra­tion of so many exe­cu­tions in such a short peri­od will cer­tain­ly attract atten­tion, the num­ber is not the head­line. These cas­es high­light impor­tant issues that are true when­ev­er and wher­ev­er there are exe­cu­tions. First, even at this late…