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GOP gubernatorial hopefuls talk about Indiana’s dormant death penalty
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette· 13 hours agoIndiana’s death penalty law exists in name only. What would Indiana’s GOP candidates for governor do...
States botched more executions of Black prisoners. Experts think they know why
NPR· 2 days agoA 2020 report from the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center showed that people of color have...
Black death row inmates suffer more botched lethal injections than white ones: Report
WJZY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn 2020, the Death Penalty Information Center found that killers of Black people are less likely to...
‘He said he didn’t want to do it anymore;” ex-wife and son testify in McDowell death penalty case
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 14 hours agoTestimony continued in the death penalty case of a Jacksonville man who pleaded guilty to murdering...
Transfer of San Quentin death row inmates to Chino prison prompts safety concerns
FOX 11 News Los Angeles· 2 days agoThe inmates serving death sentences at San Quentin State Prison will be moved elsewhere in the...
How lethal injection problems could end the death penalty
The Oak Ridger· 3 days agoAll but one of the 27 states that have the death penalty, which is opposed by 40% of Americans, are...
Dent: Recriminalizing drug possession in Oregon is a rewind to failed policy
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 13 hours agoChristina Dent says a punitive approach to drug use has not succeeded in the last one hundred years, and it won’t succeed in the next one hundred. Earlier this month, Oregon ...
Witness testified confessed Nassau County cop killer was a stand-up Marine years before murder
First Coast News· 8 hours agoA stand-up Marine and husband changed by war and drugs is how witness testimony Friday described the...
Black People Experienced Botched Lethal Injections At Higher Rates, New Study Finds
Black America Web· 12 hours agoReprieve, a non-profit organization advocating against the death penalty, shed light on a troubling aspect of the controversial form of capital punishment ...
‘Facts in this case are inescapable:’ Patrick McDowell’s penalty phase starts with opening statement
WJAX via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPatrick McDowell pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after shooting and killing Deputy Joshua Moyers in Sept. 2021. Now jurors will decide whether to recommend that McDowell gets life in prison or a death sentence.