Tag: death penalty

Newsom asked the state Supreme Court to recommend clemency by year's end for 382 of the 548 condemned people, who each have more than one felony conviction.

Catherine Sweeney was one of the reporters in the witness room during the attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. The journalists knew that a recent execution hadn’t gone according to plan and that Pike’s lawyers had predicted failure because of a health condition. They’d even asked for her to be hanged instead.

Lethal injections are not typically administered by doctors, given executions are incompatible with their oath to protect lives.

More than 560 people still face death sentences in California, despite a longstanding moratorium on executions.

New directive tells federal prosecutors to pursue capital punishment “in all appropriate cases” in D.C., despite local repeal, as rights groups warn the policy spreads fear and undermines safety.

The abrupt decision to scrap plea agreements with Guantánamo detainees raises questions about justice, torture, and the future of military commissions.

Amnesty International reports a spike in executions driven by Iran and the U.S., with China remaining the world's leading executioner under a shroud of secrecy.

One of the biggest struggles for abolitionists right now is for organizers to really believe in their own power to enact the world of abundance and safety that is a necessary part of an abolitionist future.

Judge Robert Colville will formally rule in court today.

“With Governor Northam’s signature today, Virginia has now joined 22 other states, including Washington, D.C., that have abandoned the death penalty."