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Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Books: “Let The Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty” by Robert Dunham by Robert Dunham, Death Penalty Information Center In his new book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, journalist Maurice Chammah presages the death of America’s capital …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Sequel: Three Additional Federal Executions Before Trump Left Office by Chad Marks by Chad Marks As detailed in this month’s cover story, former President Trump and Attorney General Barr were responsible for a spree of federal executions during their final months in office. But the ProPublica cover story was written …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Death Penalty
Analysis: Federal Executions in Indiana Became ‘Super-Spreader’ Events by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna It seems inconceivable that prison personnel selected to carry out the ultimate judicial sanction – execution — would willfully violate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and expose themselves, their families, prisoners and staff, clergy, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
COVID-19 Deaths in Jails, Prisons Exceed Number of Deaths by Execution From 1990 to Present by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in jails and prisons across the county. The number of virus-related prisoner deaths reached 1,453 on November 17, 2020. This number exceeds the 1,406 …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Alabama Executes Non-Shooter in Police Killings by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death penalty is advocated both for punishing the most atrocious cases of murder and for its alleged deterrent effect. Yet on March 5, 2020, Alabama executed a 44-year-old man, not for committing murder but instead because …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: Death Penalty
Gallup Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Death Penalty by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A Gallup poll revealed that 60% of Americans believe that life in prison without parole is a better approach for a murder conviction than the death penalty. The poll was cited in the Death Penalty Information …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Innocence Project Working to Prove Arkansas Executed Innocent Man by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On January 23, 2020, the family of an Arkansas man who was executed three years earlier, filed a lawsuit to obtain evidence from the scene of the murder for which he was convicted, hoping to …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Precedential Settlement Eliminates Solitary Confinement on Pennsylvania’s Death Row by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has agreed to operate a Capital Case Unit (CCU) “as a general population unit that exclusively houses prisoners sentenced to death.” That change in conditions is part of …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Death Penalty Prosecution in Colorado Costs State Over $1.6 Million, Ends in Life Sentence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  After spending seven years and more than $1.6 million seeking the death penalty for a prisoner who killed a Colorado prison guard, prosecutors plea-bargained the case for a life sentence. …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Project Hope Fights to End the Death Penalty ... from Death Row by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The executive director of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Esther Brown, is a former psychiatric social worker who has been called “the most loyal person I’ve ever met” by a …
Article • December 9, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Local Taxpayers Face Higher Taxes, Crime Rates Due to Death Penalty Trials by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Taxpayers in Texas counties where death penalty cases are held get hit with a double whammy: Not only do they face higher property taxes to pay for the trials, they also have …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Federal Prisoner Challenges Constitutionality of Death Penalty; Gets Plea Deal for Life Without Parole by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 28, 2018, a Vermont federal judge approved a plea bargain to grant life without parole to a death-sentenced federal prisoner who had challenged the constitutionality of the death …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Florida Supreme Court Issues Death Penalty Rulings by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon The final two weeks of 2018 were extremely busy for Florida’s Supreme Court with respect to capital punishment jurisprudence. Florida codefendants Gerald Murray and Steven Taylor were convicted in separate trials for capital murder and sentenced to …
Article • November 4, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
U.S. Department of Justice Plans to Ramp up Federal Death Penalty by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Attorney General William P. Barr has paved the way to restart the “machinery of death,” in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, in the form of capital punishment on …
Author John Grisham Pens Editorial Criticizing Death Penalty in North Carolina by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On October 11, 2018, world-famous author and attorney John Grisham published an editorial in a North Carolina newspaper regarding capital punishment in that state. “Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death …
Article • September 9, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Dr. Arthur Zitrin, Anti-Death Penalty Advocate and Bioethicist, Dies at 101 by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Dr. Arthur Zitrin died at age 101 on May 11, 2019. He was a psychiatrist and leading bioethicist who believed that doctors should take no part in lethal injections. His son Richard, an …
Supreme Court Again Prevents Texas from Executing Intellectually Disabled Prisoner by In an unusual case where prosecutors sided with the defense and the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court crossed sides, convicted Texas murderer Bobby James Moore has again been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore not a candidate for …
Texas: Prosecutorial Misconduct May Stymie Death Sentence by On October 26, 2006, Paul David Storey, then 21, and his accomplice, Mark Devayne Porter, robbed Putt Putt Golf & Games, a miniature golf course in Fort Worth, Texas. During the course of the robbery they shot and killed assistant manager James …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Settlement in Lawsuit Against Missouri DOC’s Selection of Execution Witnesses by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Christopher McDaniel, an investigative journalist for BuzzFeed News, sued the director of the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) for maintaining a policy of selecting witnesses for executions that constructively denied applicants based on their …
Article • March 6, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
Arkansas DOC Director’s Sole Discretion to Determine Competency for Execution Violates Due Process by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Arkansas Supreme Court held that a state law granting the corrections director sole discretion to determine if a prisoner is competent to be executed violates state and federal due process …
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