Innocence
,Representation
,Mar 31, 2023
Prominent death penalty attorney, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson (pictured with President Joe Biden), was awarded the National Humanities Medal on March 21, 2023 at the White House. The president co…
Clemency
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 20, 2021
Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate have called on incoming President Joe Biden (pictured) to take quick action on his campaign pledge to end the federal death penalty. Legislators introduced three bills to abolish the…
Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 13, 2021
Major U.S. editorial writers have criticized the Biden administration’s June 30, 2021 announcement o…
Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 13, 2023
On March 13, 2023, a jury in the federal death penalty prosecution of Sayfullo Saipov in New York City concluded its deliberations without coming to a unanimous decision regarding sentencing. As a result, Saipov will be sentenced to life in prison…
Human Rights
,International
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 11, 2022
A new report by the human rights organization Amnesty International urges President Joe Biden to act upon his campaign pledge to work to abolish the death penalty by exercising his constitutional authority to comm…
United States Supreme Court
,Feb 28, 2022
President Joe Biden has nominated federal appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (pictured) to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, fulfilling his campaign pledge to select an African American woman for the C…
Federal Death Penalty
,Feb 09, 2021
A coalition of 82 civil rights and advocacy organizations have called on President Joe Biden to honor his campaign promise of “ensuring equality, equity, and justice in our criminal legal system” by taking executive action to end …
Race
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Mar 31, 2022
After more than a century of efforts by civil rights leaders to make lynching a federal crime, President Joe Biden on March 29, 2022 signed into law historic anti-lynching legislation. Flanked by the bill’s sponsors,
Victims' Families
,United States Supreme Court
,Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 07, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a federal appeals court decision that had reversed the death sentences imposed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people …
Representation
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jan 28, 2021
Developments in three federal capital cases at the transition between presidential administrations illustrate the choices that the new Biden Department of Justice will face in formulating its policy on the federal death penalty. T…
International
,Jun 01, 2023
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s (pictured) decision to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 on May 29 has drawn widespread international criticism. The new law prescribes that people convicted of “aggravated homosexuality” may now be punished …
International
,Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 25, 2021
Describing capital punishment as an “inherently flawed” and “abhorrent practice,” United Nations human rights experts have called on President Joe Biden to take action to end the death penalty in the U.S. …
Clemency
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jun 16, 2021
As the Department of Justice filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking reinstatement of the death sentence imposed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, the White House press office issued a s…
