- Divided Supreme Court Vacates Injunction, Permits Alabama to Execute Intellectually Disabled Prisonerby Death Penalty Information Center on January 28, 2022 at 9:31 pm
A divided U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 on January 27, 2022 to allow Alabama to execute an intellectually disabled death-row prisoner, vacating an injunction issued by a federal district court on January 7 and unanimously upheld by a panel of the U.S. Court of […]
- Oklahoma Executes Donald Grant: First U.S. Execution of 2022 is 43rd from County with Most Executions Outside Texasby Death Penalty Information Center on January 27, 2022 at 11:05 pm
Oklahoma carried out the first execution of 2022 in the U.S. on January 27, injecting Donald Grant (pictured, at his clemency hearing) with a three-drug chemical cocktail whose constitutionality is the subject of a pending federal trial. Grant, whose […]
- Kansas Supreme Court Rules that Death Penalty Does Not Violate State Constitution’s ‘Inalienable’ Right to Lifeby Death Penalty Information Center on January 27, 2022 at 1:31 am
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s death penalty against two death-row prisoners’ challenges that capital punishment violates the “inalienable” right to life enshrined in the Kansas state constitution. In separate […]
- Clinton Young Free Pending Retrial After 20 Years on Texas Death Rowby Death Penalty Information Center on January 26, 2022 at 12:44 am
Former Texas death-row prisoner Clinton Young has been released from custody nearly twenty years after being sentenced to death for a double murder he has consistently said he did not commit. Young, pictured with Clinton Young Foundation Legal Director […]
- TCADP January 2022 Newsletter: Starting the year on the right note – with no executions in Texas this monthby Hanna Seay on January 5, 2022 at 12:05 am
In this edition Scheduled executions: No executions set in Texas for January or February TCADP 2022 Annual Conference: Don’t miss keynote speaker, Sister Helen Prejean! In case you missed it: Death penalty developments in 2021; a radio station at the […]
- New Report from TCADP: Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2021by Kristin on December 16, 2021 at 5:02 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021, 12:01 AM EASTERN CONTACT: Kristin Houlé Cuellar, Executive Director512-552-5948 (cell)kristin@tcadp.org www.tcadp.org@TCADPdotORG #TXDP2021 Texas’s death penalty mired in a […]
- TCADP December 2021 Newsletter: Ending the year with a renewed call for justiceby Hanna Seay on December 2, 2021 at 3:01 pm
In this edition: Scheduled executions: No executions set for Texas until March 2022 In case you missed it: U.S. Supreme Court considers whether individuals have the right to spoken prayers and physical comfort in the execution chamber; Gallup poll measures […]
- TCADP November 2021 Newsletter: Judge declines to recommend new trial for Rodney Reed, despite evidence of innocenceby Kristin on November 1, 2021 at 5:01 pm
In this edition: Scheduled executions: All three November execution dates in Texas have been withdrawn Case updates: Judge declines to recommend a new trial for Rodney Reed, who maintains his innocence; Dallas judge recommends new trial for Randy […]
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- Papua New Guinea: one step away from full abolition of the death penaltyby Hedia Zaalouni on January 21, 2022 at 4:42 pm
Papua New Guinea’s National Parliament voted to repeal the death penalty on 20 January2022. The bill has now to be signed into law and to be published in the official gazette. The Prime Minister and Minister of Justice had made several statements since […]
- Bahrain: Joint appeal for commutation and moratoriumby Hedia Zaalouni on January 13, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Joint Appeal was published on World Day Against the Death Penlaty on 10 October 2021 and sent to the Bahraini Embassy in France, UK and Switzerland. Joint appeal – Bahrain: His Majesty, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Kingdom of Bahrain,We write to you […]
- Executions and Death Sentences Near Record Lows in 2021 in the USAby Hedia Zaalouni on January 13, 2022 at 1:14 pm
Virginia’s historic abolition of the death penalty highlighted a year in which public opinion polls, executions, and new death sentences all signaled continued erosion of support for capital punishment across the United States. Five states and the […]
- Capitalization workshop of the project for the abolition of the death penalty in sub-Saharan Africaby Hedia Zaalouni on January 4, 2022 at 5:24 pm
Member organizations of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and African ACATs (Action des Chrétiens pour l’Abolition de la Torture) met in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) for the capitalization workshop of Phase 2 of the project for […]
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- Race and the Death Penalty: “Just a Bunch of Racists”?by James Clark on November 4, 2016 at 4:29 pm
At a recent public debate of California’s competing ballot initiatives on the death penalty, Paul Pfingst, a former district attorney for San Diego County and a supporter of Prop 66, spoke about the role race plays in the death penalty. … Please […]
- Troy Davis: 5 Years Onby James Clark on September 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Troy was on death row for over two decades before he was finally executed. In that time he became a leader himself in the movement to end the death penalty, with his steadfast spirit and unshakeable faith in justice inspiring activists around the world.
- Troy Davis’s Legacyby Guest Writer on September 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm
By Savannah Fox, Field Organizer Five years ago today, on September 21st, I became an activist. I didn’t sign my first petition or attended my first rally. I found my passion, my anger and my hope as an activist, all … Please continue reading.
- Jeffrey Wood is Scheduled for Execution on August 24th, but he Didn’t Commit Murderby James Clark on August 17, 2016 at 9:41 pm
As death sentences and executions dwindle around the country and most states are abandoning the death penalty, a few states are determined to keep executions rolling. Top of the list is Texas, the state that’s now gearing up to execute a man who never […]