A two-part report published on Monday by the Wren Collective, a group of former public defenders who do criminal justice…
Browsing: Capital Punishment
According to an annual report on capital punishment from the Death Penalty Information Center, more Americans now believe the death…
The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate Phillip Hancock on Thursday, dismissing years of claims of self defense and…
Family members of prisoners on Singapore’s death row, as well as those already executed, are calling on the city-state’s government…
Kevin Johnson was executed on Tuesday, November 29. “In my view, there was a likelihood that Johnson would have succeeded on the merits of his federal due process claim, and it was clear that he would (and obviously did) suffer irreparable harm absent a stay,” Justice Jackson wrote in a dissent signed by her and Justice Sotomayor.
Alabama called off the execution after prison officials failed to properly insert intravenous lines used for lethal injection and Kenneth Smith’s death warrant expired at midnight.
Families of the Florida school shooting victims are outraged that Nikolas Cruz, convicted in 17 deaths, did not receive the death penalty. But Life Without Parole in any American prison, especially a maximum security prison in Florida, is a worse punishment than death, writes TCR contributor Billy Sinclair.
José P. Garza, a district attorney in Texas, has joined lawyers for a man convicted of murder in requesting a new trial, for Areli Escobar, who was convicted of murder in 2011 based on DNA evidence from a now-disgraced police lab.
The decision to spare Nikolas Cruz’ life left many outraged families questioning the purpose of the death penalty, if not for punishing the mass murderers of children.
The trial of Sayfullo Saipov, accused of driving a truck into a crowd of cyclists and pedestrians in 2017, killing eight, will be the first since U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has put a moratorium on federal executions.