A recent article in the Tennessee Law Review (subscription required) highlights the work done by the ACLU Capital Punishment Project in their representation of Richard Taylor, a severely mentally ...
America made big strides in 2019 on its path to dismantle the racist, unfair, and inhumane death penalty. Today, dramatically fewer states permit the death penalty than any time in the modern era, and ...
Loran Cole, 57, was set to be executed in Florida on Thursday for the 1994 murder of 18-year-old Florida State University freshman John Edwards and the sexual assault of his 21-year-old sister. Cole ...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his administration will seek the death penalty in all murder cases in Washington, DC, a move that could collide with longstanding city law and ...
Oklahoma voters reaffirmed their support of capital punishment Tuesday with the passage of State Question 776, which adds a section to the state constitution saying the all death penalty statutes are ...
What a difference four years make. In 2020 the Democratic Party took an aggressively anti-death penalty position. Not so this year. In 2020 Joe Biden pledged that if he was elected president he would ...