The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/capital-punishment/)
The recent decision to reject seven death penalty cases, as well as an absence of new cases and an ongoing review of death penalty practices, has many hoping for a change in federal policy.
The moratorium cites concerns about about the “arbitrariness” in the application of the death penalty, its disparate impact on people of color, and the troubling number of exonerations in capital and other serious cases. Just a year ago, the Trump administration restarted federal executions after a 17-year-hiatus.
Executions in South Carolina have been halted by the state Supreme Court until the Department of Corrections can offer a firing squad as a choice for death row inmates. Many are looking to how other states have offered the method of execution to see what this would look like.
Despite saying that he would work to eliminate the death penalty on a federal level, President Biden remains silent and avoids action.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after finding the trial judge wrongly kept evidence of a triple homicide committed by Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, and did not ensure the jury was free of bias due to media coverage.
A convicted mass killer may be the subject of Nevada’s first execution in 15 years that will experiment with a new combination of drugs to end his life.
The number of prisoners held under a death sentence declined for the 19th consecutive year, as of the end of 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics said in its most recent annual report. Twenty-two prisoners were put to death, and Texas was responsible for 41 percent of that total.
A self-report Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday details that a majority of Americans favor the death penalty, despite some concerns over innocence and how capital punishment is administered.
Embracing a technique used by the Nazis, Arizona revamps its method of capital punishment despite many concerns.
The state of Arizona is preparing to kill death row inmates using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz.