Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona found. Experts say the numbers raise questions about the office’s decision-making. www.propublica.org/article/mari...

In 2025, forty-seven men killed by states operating death penalty – almost double last year’s number. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bill could leave future of death penalty in the hands of Alabama voters. www.google.com/amp/s/www.ws...

Saudi Arabia: Further Information: Essam Ahmed Executed After Grossly Unfair Trial

An Alabama prison guard who left incarcerated people unsupervised in outdoor cages for hours was suspended for three days. But he was still allowed to participate in executions as part of the team of officers who administer the death penalty:

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases: thehill.com/regulation/c...

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239 years ago, on the 30th of November 1786, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany became the first modern state to abolish the death penalty. Grand Duke Leopold I, who was influenced in the decision by the book 'On Crimes and Punishments', would later become Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. #otd #history 🗃️

This is one of many reasons I can never support the death penalty

Singapore executes three men for drug offences over two days. www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

South Carolina Man Is Executed By Firing Squad For 2004 Killings. www.huffpost.com/entry/south-...

Eye-popping reporting from my better half on systemic misconduct in two Oklahoma death penalty cases. Despite that (and against the recommendation of the OK clemency board), the condemned in one case will be executed today. The state has vowed to re-try the other. theintercept.com/2025/11/12/r...

Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system.

Last year the UN member states voted on a moratorium to end the death penalty. The green countries want to abolish the death penalty, the red countries want to keep it. Russia voting against the death penalty is a teeny bit funny. HT @maroni_editor

Yesterday: "The death penalty is extremely fiscally irresponsible. It costs more to sentence someone to death and execute them than to sentence them to life in prison without parole. It’s also an ineffective deterrent to violent crime."

Tremane Wood Receives Last-Minute Clemency, Sparing Him From Execution. www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...

Sotomayor says GOP-appointed Supreme Court wing ‘abandons its duty’ in death penalty case. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Anti-death penalty protesters walk 30 miles across Missouri after governor denies man clemency. www.ky3.com/2025/10/13/a...

Despite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well

Racism is embedded in the death penalty. This World Against the Death Penalty Day and every other day of the year, we’re calling on our elected officials to work toward an end to capital punishment once and for all.

We must end the death penalty, once and for all. On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, add your name to the growing number of people calling for an end to capital punishment.

Missouri man who maintains innocence set to be executed for killing state trooper. www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

Pam Bondi Transfers People Who Received Biden Commutations To Supermax Prison. www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

Our statement on Trump's most recent Executive Order, promoting the death penalty in DC.

Trump signs an EO directing Bondi and Pirro to reinstate the death penalty in Washington DC

NC crime bill goes to Gov. Stein’s desk with changes to bail and death penalty laws. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Democrats Go After Law Firms Doing Free Work For Trump, Warn Of Law-Breaking. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

"The Indiana Capital Chronicle recently sued the Dept of Correction for public records, learning the state paid more than a million dollars to purchase enough drugs for four lethal injections. Two doses expired before they could be used." #deathpenalty www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/13/t...

I wrote for the KC Star (@kansascity.com) about the inability of civilians to sue federal agents for civil rights violations & the need for Congress to codify Bivens as the President escalates his campaign to deploy federalized military personnel to some of America’s large cities.

It's hard to keep up with troubling events and it is easy to miss things in the news cycle. But this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Noem v. Vasquez about ICE stopping people in California has potential broad troubling implications. A few initial thoughts. 🧵 1/10

Bestselling author and Innocence Project Board Member John Grisham is telling the story of Robert Roberson—an innocent man Texas plans to execute on Oct. 16. Time is running out. www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2...

Yet another example of why I oppose the death penalty. "...a "key witness" in Hooper's trial, allegedly confessed to the murder in July, Hooper's attorney said." abcnews.go.com/US/man-freed...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

9th Circuit: When analyzing whether a person abandoned their phone, giving up rights in it, courts should distinguish b/w abandoning the device & abandoning *the data* on the phone. Here, man who dropped phone after being shot did not abandon his phone or data. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

It is past time #SaudiArabia put an end to its disgraceful use of the death penalty, which includes executing people for crimes they allegedly committed as children, and leaves families torn apart and devastated. #FreeSaudiArabia #StopExecution #antideathpenalty www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

An Alabama prison guard who left incarcerated people unsupervised in outdoor cages for hours was suspended for three days. But he was still allowed to participate in executions as part of the team of officers who administer the death penalty:

The end of this article quotes the upcoming book by Justice Amy Cony Barrett where she implies she is personally against capital punishment. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...

NEWS: The Supreme Court will not stop today's scheduled execution by Florida of Kayle Bates. There were no noted dissents. The execution is set for 6:00 p.m., and it would be Florida's 10th execution this year — 2.5 times more than any other state.

Alabama inmate set to die by nitrogen gas asks for firing squad, hanging to avoid "conscious suffocation". www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama...

We have to put the death penalty behind us, nationwide and forever.

Tennessee Inmate Executed Despite Ethical Health Concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

"Byron Black would be the first intellectually disabled person executed by Tennessee in the modern era of the death penalty." Alongside "an intellectual disability, medical records show brain damage, dementia, diabetes, kidney disease, and congestive heart failure." #Tennessee #USA #Incarceration

Petition asks state Supreme Court to block DA Walsh from pursuing death penalty: Washington County has second most capital murder cases in Pennsylvania. www.observer-reporter.com/news/local-n...

CUNY School of Law alum and Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Edwina G. Richardson is helping to implement a new vision for New York’s court system centering on a therapeutic approach rather than a punitive one.

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip may be released from Oklahoma prison today. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Utah death row inmate with dementia faces firing squad execution in September, judge says: www.cbsnews.com/news/utah-fi...

Saudi Arabia executing ‘horrifying’ number of foreigners for drug crimes: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Babe Howell, professor at CUNY School of Law, and Peter Moskos, professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, former Baltimore City police officer and author of Back from the Brink, debate the efficacy of the gang database www.wnyc.org/story/the-ny...