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Does Not Comport
The year 2009 saw a shift in New Hampshire, when the state legislature voted to form a Commission to Study the Death Penalty in order to look further into the…
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Bias, Misconduct and Error: Reggie Clemons and Missouri's Tragically Flawed Death Penalty
No physical evidence. Just two (white) witnesses, one who initially confessed to the crime, the other implicated the three (black) youths in exchange for a lesser sentence. Reggie Clemons today…
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College students read last words of the executed
A couple of days ago, we revealed staggering statistics about countries utilizing capital punishment. Our newest report Death Sentences and Executions shows that the U.S. ranks 7th in the world.…
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New Global Death Penalty Stats Out Today
A Challenge to the Outliers Today we released our annual report on global death penalty statistics. The good news: the world has made progress toward upholding the fundamental right to…
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South Korea's Death Penalty: Forgotten, But Not Gone
South Korea is, to my knowledge, the only place in the world where a former death row inmate went on to become President of the country (and to win the…
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Tie Vote Stops Kansas Death Penalty Abolition Bill
With a tie vote, the Kansas Senate today failed to pass SB 375, a bill which would have abolished that state’s death penalty. The Kansas Senate consists of 31 Republicans and 9 Democrats, and the…
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With Death Sentences Down, Things Are Looking Up in Texas
[caption id="attachment_6709" align="alignnone" width="309" caption="Source: Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty"][/caption] It’s always nice to hear good news about the decline of the death penalty, and even nicer when…
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Troy Davis gets visitors in Georgia: Peachy with a side of Keane
By Laura Moye, Death Penalty Abolition Campaign Director This is just a quick note from Savannah, Georgia, where I am right now with a wonderful delegation of folks from the…
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A Healthy Justice System
As Amnesty International reported yesterday the African nation of Togo became the 94th country in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, and the 15th member of…
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A Clear Scientific Consensus that the Death Penalty does NOT Deter
Scientists agree, by an overwhelming majority, that the death penalty has no deterrent effect. They felt the same way over ten years ago, and nothing has changed since then. States…
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Connecticut Is Wrong To Veto Death Penalty Abolition Bill
I am extremely disappointed that Governor M. Jodi Rell today vetoed HB 6578, which would have abolished the death penalty in Connecticut. Governor Rell’s veto of this legislation represents a…
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200th Execution under one Governor
With the execution of Terry Lee Hankins last night, Texas Governor Rick Perry has reached a pretty apalling benchmark: 200 executions in his eight and a half years as governor. …