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...

OP-ED: "The New York State legislature has an opportunity to confront an overlooked yet troubling aspect of its criminal legal system: the eugenic roots of New York’s three-strikes law." - Daniel Loehr, CUNY School of Law

📣 Please join us in welcoming Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby to Temple Law as the Judge Clifford Scott Green Professor! A national expert in health justice & civil rights, she joins CPHLR as part of our public health law research team. We’re thrilled to have her!

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were a response to masked violent men who terrorized Black communities, violating their civil rights.The deployment of violent masked ICE ofcrs are tapping into this unique form of terror. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Nerdy, sure, but important & excellent. Everyone who writes or teaches about the Supreme Court should pony up so that they can read this @stevevladeck.bsky.social essay in full. Then all should start using 12-month Court term statistics, with specific stats that use meaningful subcategories.

Texas could soon execute a man before his appeal is heard — and set a dangerous national precedent. #deathpenalty www.salon.com/2025/06/29/t...

Mentally disabled combat veterans should never get the death penalty. thehill.com/opinion/crim...

Governor won’t stop execution of Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate. mississippitoday.org/2025/06/24/d...

Utah judge rules a convicted killer with dementia is competent to be executed. www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/u...

President Trump has ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for every undocumented migrant accused of a capital crime – but not all U.S. citizens similarly charged. Cathy Buerger argues that Trump’s order is an attempt to codify his dangerous speech toward migrants.

A Stephen Miller Staffer and Tough Talk: Inside Trump’s Latest Attack on Harvard. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

Death penalty supporters often say it is cheaper than life in prison. That is untrue -- and it's not even close. Just the cost of the DEFENSE for a death penalty trial in Houston came out ~$1.8m. That doesn't include prosecution, witnesses, appeals, etc. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.

"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. . . . " -- James Baldwin youtu.be/6xpE2-IGPy8?...

Luigi Mangione's case marks a shift in politics of the death penalty in the U.S. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/g...

Maybe the death penalty cannot be used. this level of incompetence is beyond reason.

no more death penalty

In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

Tennessee death row inmates ask the court to produce lethal injection supplier. #deathpenalty www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

Vietnam tycoon offers property empire to avoid death penalty in US$27 billion bank fraud. www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Old split-jury verdicts in Louisiana could be revisited under advancing proposal. lailluminator.com/2025/05/01/s...

Utah judge to decide if convicted killer with dementia can be executed. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Media coalition challenges Indiana ban on press access to executions. www.rcfp.org/indiana-medi...