New Voices
,Mar 31, 2017
As Arkansas moves toward attempting to conduct an unprecedented eight executions in eleven days, former corrections officials from across the country are…
New Voices
,Sep 21, 2016
Semon Frank Thompson (pictured), a former superintendent at the Oregon State Penitentiary, oversaw both of the executions carried out under Oregon’s death pe…
New Voices
,Feb 21, 2023
In the February 2023 edition of Discussions with DPIC, former Oregon Superintendent of Prisons Frank Thompson speaks with DPIC Managing Director Anne Holsinger about how his experiences as a corrections officer — as well as being a murder v…
Innocence
,New Voices
,Apr 24, 2015
Four retired death-row prison officials — two wardens, a chaplain, and an execution supervisor — recently described the effect that carrying out executions has had on them. Frank Thom…
Deterrence
,New Voices
,Apr 02, 2015
Former prison warden, Frank Thompson, has urged repeal of Delaware’s death penalty. In an op-ed for The News Journal of Delaware, the former warden, who has personally overseen two executions, describes “the immea…
New Voices
,Nov 22, 2022
Corrections personnel who participate in executing prisoners experience emotional trauma so profound that it changes their views about capital punishment, a National Public Radio (NPR) investigation has found. For stories…
